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cord-279405-1d6gznls	Butt, Muhammad Hammad	Dengue Fever and COVID‐19 Co‐Infection; A Threat to Public Health for Co‐epidemic in Pakistan	2020-08-27		.txt	text/plain	1075	75	52	geographical spread of COVID-19 and more involvement of adults, there have been increasing reports of co-infections with various other infectious diseases. During the on-going pandemic where health authorities are primarily engaged to contain the infection, any other infectious disease outbreak will hinder the manoeuvres combating COVID-19 and will create the diagnostic challenges for healthcare professionals. Recently, National Institute of Health (NIH) in Pakistan issued 'High Alert' for dengue viral infection (DVI) as monsoon season (July -December) is considered a vulnerable period for dengue spread [2] . Keeping in view the fragile healthcare system and economic turmoil in Pakistan, dengue outbreak will pose serious challenges for which country is not This article is protected by copyright. In Thailand, a patient who presented with petechial rashes was treated as dengue case but declared as co-infected with COVID-19 following advanced clinical diagnosis [6] . Patients presenting to healthcare professionals with fever, rash, headache and respiratory problems must be subjected to DVI and COVID-19 diagnosis.	./cache/cord-279405-1d6gznls.txt	./txt/cord-279405-1d6gznls.txt