2024-01-25 19:06:02
The flu is gaining ground in France. All mainland regions and a larger part of overseas territories are now affected by the virus, Public Health France said on Thursday, January 24.
The seasonal flu epidemic has spread to all mainland regions and a wider part of overseas territories, Public Health France said on Wednesday January 24, also noting the continuation of the reflux of bronchiolitis and Covid.
The week of January 15 to 21 saw a more intense circulation of influenza viruses “with an increase in positivity rates in the city and in hospitals. Activity in community medicine and emergency room indicators were also increasing.” summarized the public health agency in its weekly bulletin on acute respiratory infections.
In hospital, the number of visits to emergency rooms for flu/flu-like illness has increased significantly (+61% in one week, to 7,546), as has the number of hospitalizations subsequently (+55% to 1,349).
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In mainland France, all regions are now grappling with the flu, Brittany and Normandy having in turn entered the epidemic phase. Overseas, Martinique joined Guyana and Guadeloupe in the territories fully affected by the epidemic. Mayotte is already done.
Bronchiolitis continues to ebb
If the flu has intensified, bronchiolitis, which mainly affects babies, has continued to decline. In mainland France, no region is in the epidemic phase, with four additional regions having left it (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Occitanie, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur and Corsica).
“Uses to emergency rooms and hospitalizations after a visit for bronchiolitis in children under 2 years of age continued to decline” and “SOS Médecins medical procedures stabilized at a moderate level,” noted Public Health France.
Overseas, bronchiolitis persists in Guadeloupe, Reunion and Mayotte; Martinique and Guyana are no longer considered an epidemic area.
Covid-19 is still actively circulating
As for Covid-19, the virus is still actively circulating, but the decline observed for several weeks, in community medicine, in hospitals or even in wastewater, has continued.
In this context, in addition to insisting on the vaccination of people most at risk against flu and Covid, Public Health France reiterated its call to respect “the wearing of a mask in the event of symptoms, in busy places and in presence of vulnerable people, hand washing and regular ventilation of enclosed spaces.
A little less than a third of French people aged 65 and over have received an anti-Covid reminder since the start of the autumn campaign. And a third of anti-Covid vaccinations for seniors have been carried out at the same time as anti-flu vaccinations, since the opening of this second campaign.
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