Most metropolitan regions remain affected by the flu epidemic.
The bronchiolitis epidemic, which mainly affects babies, is now over in mainland France, the Public Health Agency announced on Wednesday, noting also a decline in seasonal flu.
«There are no longer any regions on epidemic or post-epidemic alert level in mainland France.“said Public Health France in its weekly review of bronchiolitis. Overseas, however, the epidemic is still hitting Mayotte and Reunion.
Bronchiolitis, which causes babies to cough and have difficulty breathing, is usually mild but this season has caused a epidemic of unprecedented scale for more than ten years. This outbreak has hospitals in difficultyespecially since it was added to the successive waves of Covidas well as toseasonal flu epidemic.
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The flu is still circulating actively
The flu epidemic, which started quite early, subsided at the start of the year but then rebounded, partly fueled by a different strain of the virus. Now, this recovery seems to have peaked. Public Health France reported a “decrease in influenza indicators in the city and in the hospital in all age groups“. This decline comes without the number of cases having reached the peak of the first wave, which suggests that the second will not reach the levels of the end of 2022.
However, the virus continues to circulate a lot and most metropolitan regions – 11 out of 13 as the previous week – remain affected by the epidemic. Only Hauts-de-France and Normandy are still emerging from the epidemic. Overseas, the West Indies and Guyana remain affected.