(ANSA) - Rome, January 22 - The Higher Health Institute (ISS)
said Wednesday that 488,000 people were hit in Italy by the flu
in the third week of January.
It said that this took the number of people to have been hit
by this season's flu virus up to 2.768 million.
It said central Italy was the worst-hit area.
Flu hits 500,000 in Italy in one week
Number struck by this season's virus approaches three million