Weekly report for him corona virus, flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), published by EODY.

Figures refer to base week 10/3 (March 6, 2023 – March 12, 2023).

Analytically:

Influenza syndromes (regardless of pathogen)

✓ There has been a decrease in the community compared to the previous week.

✓ The 5-14 and 15-64 age groups recorded a decrease, while the 0-4 and >=65 age groups recorded a slight increase.

SARS-CoV2 virus – COVID-19 infection

✓ A positive result in all tested samples showed a decrease compared to the previous week.

✓ The number of hospitalizations for COVID-19 showed a decrease compared to the previous week (18.7% decrease compared to the average weekly number of new hospitalizations in the previous 4 weeks).

✓ The number of new intubations slightly increased compared to the previous week (7% decrease compared to the average weekly number of new intubations over the previous 4 weeks).

✓ The number of patients with COVID-19 infection hospitalized for intubation is 96.

✓ 70 deaths registered with a mean age of 86 years (51 to 95 years).

✓ During weeks 07-08/2023, all sequenced strains belonged to Omicron BA.2 and BA.5 sub-variants.

✓ BA.2 detection rate increased and reached 56% of all sequenced samples within 07-08 weeks.

✓ Sub-option BQ.1.1 was the most frequent sub-option of BA.5.

✓ The most common BA.2 sub-variant was XBB.1.5 (41%), followed by BA.2.75 sub-variant (26%) and XBB sub-variant (16%).

✓ Surveillance of viral load in urban wastewater showed an increase in SARSCoV2 virus circulation in 4 out of 10 areas tested.

flu virus

✓ The number of cases of influenza in the community has decreased.

✓ No new severe cases of laboratory-confirmed influenza with ICU admissions, with one new death from laboratory-confirmed influenza reported.

✓ From week 40, 2022 to week 10, 2023, 65 people with influenza were admitted to intensive care units and 22 deaths were recorded.

✓ During the same period, 305 influenza virus-positive specimens (sentinel specimens and hospital specimens) were reported at two influenza reference centers, of which 279 (92%) were type A strains and 26 (9%) were influenza type strains. IN.

✓ Of the 276 subtypes of type A strains, 256 (93%) were assigned to subtype A(H3N2) and 20 (7%) to subtype A(H1N1)pdm09.

✓ Over the past two weeks, an excess of type B has been recorded.

Respiratory syncytial virus – RSV

✓ Positivity remained at the same level.