Deaths from the coronavirus in our country have dropped to 40 from 45, as announced on Thursday, February 15 by the EODY, during the Weekly Report of the Epidemiological Surveillance of Respiratory Infections. Eight deaths from flu, compared to three in the previous record.
According to the EODY update, between February 05 and February 11, 34 people out of 32, compared to the previous record, are hospitalized with intubation, as they were infected with the coronavirus. Imports decreased.
In summary for the week of 06/2024:
Influenza-like illness – ILI (regardless of pathogen)
Severe Acute Respiratory Infection – SARI (regardless of pathogen)
✓ The number of SARI cases per 1,000 visits showed a slight increase compared to the previous week.
SARS-CoV2 virus – COVID-19 infection
✓ The positivity in all the tested samples showed a slight decrease compared to the previous week.
✓ The number of admissions (n=446) showed a 40% decrease compared to the average weekly number of admissions in the previous 4 weeks (n=747) and was lower than the number of admissions in the corresponding week
✓ The number of new intubations (n=7) showed a decrease compared to the average weekly number of new intubations over the previous 4 weeks (n=20) and was lower than the number of intubations in the corresponding week of 2023 (n=31) .
✓ The number of patients with COVID-19 infection who are hospitalized with intubation is 34.
✓ 40 deaths were recorded with a median age of 85 years (range 55-98 years). The number of deaths showed a decrease compared to the average weekly number of deaths in the previous 4 weeks (n=79) and was lower than the number of deaths in the corresponding week in 2023 (n=113).
✓ The most frequent sub-variant of BA.2 was JN.1 (68%) followed by EG.5 (21%) (latest data available).
✓ Surveillance of the viral load in urban wastewater showed a reduction in the circulation of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in 8 of the 9 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 an increase compared to the previous week. The positivity of SARI samples showed a drop compared to the previous week.
✓ 10 new serious cases with hospitalization in ICU were recorded, while 8 new deaths from laboratory-confirmed influenza were recorded. 4 severe cases of laboratory-confirmed influenza with ICU hospitalization were retrospectively reported, one with an admission date within the week of 01/2024
and 3 with an admission date within the week of 05/2024, as well as one death with a date of death within the week of 05/2024.
✓ From week 40/2023 to week 06/2024, 118 people with laboratory-confirmed influenza were hospitalized in ICU and 45 deaths from laboratory-confirmed influenza were recorded.
✓ From week 40/2023 to week 06/2024, 397 influenza strains have been typed (derived from community Sentinel samples, from SARI surveillance samples and from hospital samples outside surveillance networks), of which 392 (99%) were type A and 5 (1%) type B.
✓ In total, 370 type A strains have been subtyped in the two Influenza Reference Centers. 344 (93%) belonged to subtype A(H1)pdm09 and 26 (7%) to subtype A(H3).
Respiratory syncytial virus – RSV
✓ RSV positivity in the community showed a slight increase compared to the previous week.
NOTE: data may be modified by incorporating data that is declared retroactively
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