While it started very early this season, the flu epidemic continues its long decline. However, several regions remain in the epidemic phase, according to health authorities.
The flu epidemic continues to decline in mainland France, even if many regions remain affected and this episode has already reached an exceptionally long duration, the public health agency noted on Wednesday.
The past week has seen a “decrease in the majority of influenza indicators“In mainland France, summarized Public Health France in a weekly report. Of the 13 metropolitan regions, eight remain considered in the epidemic phase. The epidemic, on the other hand, seems able to end in Corsica, Île-de-France, Occitanie and, like the last few weeks, in Normandy and Hauts-de-France. Overseas, the epidemic is still hitting the West Indies and, now, Mayotte.
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This season, the flu epidemic started rather early and continued for many months. Despite declining in early 2023, it was revived by a different strain of the virus. “The 2022-23 epidemic (emerges from) its 17th week, longer than the average duration of epidemics from 2010 to 2022 – 11 weeks – and the longest reached during this period“, underlined Public Health France.
More broadly, the Covid has been added this season to the flu, as well as a strong epidemic of bronchiolitis in babies, to put particular pressure on the health system.
