Last week saw a “stability of the majority of flu indicators for all ages combined in the community and in the hospital”according to a weekly report from Public Health France.
flu epidemic, arrived quite early in France this season, had calmed down at the start of the year, but has picked up again in recent weeks.
However, this increase is significantly slow downwith the number of cases well below the peak of the first wave, suggesting that this recovery will not reach the levels of the end of 2022.
11 out of 13 regions still affected
Last week, the epidemic therefore did not record any significant development: in mainland France, 11 out of 13 regions are still affected, only Hauts-de-France and Normandy being in the phase of emerging from the epidemic. Overseas, the West Indies and Guyana are still affected.
This winter, the flu came to contribute to an unusual situation of “triple epidemic”with several waves of Covid as well as a particularly intense outbreak of bronchiolitis in babies.
No more bronchiolitis epidemic in Paca
The bronchiolitis epidemic, which has been declining since the end of December, she continues to end across French territory.
The epidemic ended in five new regions: Centre-Val de Loire, Corsica, Normandy, New Aquitaine and Provence-Alpes Côte d’Azur. However, it continues in Mayotte and Reunion.