Irish Examiner View: A Covid upside?

Flu figures drop internationally

Anti-Covid measures, including mask wearing, have cut flu cases dramatically. 

Health reports coming from all corners of the globe have been, for the most part, bleak since the first outbreak of coronavirus last December. 

It is a welcome relief, then, to have optimistic news from South Africa which reports that it has had no flu season for the first time in nearly four decades.