The data on the coronavirus, RSV and the influenza virus were announced at noon on Thursday (21/03) by the EODY in the weekly report of the Epidemiological Surveillance of Respiratory Infections for the week of 12/2024 (March 18, 2024 – March 24, 2024).
In summary for the week of 12/2024:
Influenza-like illness – ILI (regardless of pathogen)
✓ The number of influenza cases per 1,000 visits showed a decrease compared to the previous week.
Severe Acute Respiratory Infection – SARI (regardless of pathogen)
✓ The number of SARI cases per 1,000 visits showed an increase compared to the previous week.
SARS-CoV2 virus – COVID-19 infection
✓ The positivity in all tested samples showed a decrease compared to the previous week.
✓ The number of admissions (n=104) showed a decrease of 46% compared to the average weekly number of admissions in the previous 4 weeks (n=194) and was lower than the number of admissions in the corresponding week of 2023 (n=691)
✓ The number of new intubations (n=1) showed a decrease compared to the average weekly number of new intubations in the previous 4 weeks (n=4) and was lower than the number of intubations in the corresponding week of 2023 (n=17) .
✓ The number of patients with COVID-19 infection who are hospitalized with intubation is 13.
✓ 4 deaths were recorded with a median age of 92.5 years (range 86-96 years). The number of deaths showed a decrease compared to the average weekly number of deaths in the previous 4 weeks (n=14) and was lower than the number of deaths in the corresponding week in 2023 (n=66).
✓ The most frequent sub-variant of BA.2 remains JN.1 (>85% from week 6 onwards)
✓ Surveillance of the viral load in municipal wastewater showed a reduction in the circulation of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in 7 of the 8 areas tested.
Influenza virus
✓ Influenza positivity in the community (sentinel network) remains above 10% (seasonal threshold for initiation of epidemic influenza activity according to ECDC) and showed a decrease compared to the previous week. The positivity of SARI samples showed a slight increase compared to the previous week.
✓ One new serious case with hospitalization in ICU and one new death from laboratory-confirmed influenza were recorded.
✓ From week 40/2023 to week 12/2024, 134 people with laboratory-confirmed influenza were hospitalized in ICU and 66 deaths from laboratory-confirmed influenza were recorded.
✓ From week 40/2023 to week 12/2024, 724 influenza strains have been typed (derived from community Sentinel samples, from SARI surveillance samples and from hospital samples outside surveillance networks), of which 539 (75%) were type A and 182 (25%) type B.
✓ In total, 520 type A strains have been subtyped in the two Influenza Reference Centers. 481 (92.5%) belonged to the A(H1)pdm09 subtype and 39 (7.5%) to the A(H3) subtype.
Respiratory syncytial virus – RSV
✓ RSV positivity remains at low levels in the community (Sentinel PHY network), and in hospitals (SARI surveillance network).
NOTE: data may be modified by incorporating data declared retroactively
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