2024-01-10 17:20:05
Flu activity further increased in France during this first week of the year. Almost all of France is now in an epidemic phase.
The seasonal flu epidemic intensified in the first week of January, affecting almost all metropolitan regions, while the decline in the bronchiolitis epidemic continued, the public health agency said on Wednesday, January 10. .
The first week of January, the second week of the school holidays, was marked by an “increase in the circulation of influenza viruses in France, with 11 regions in epidemic”, the Pays de la Loire being the latest, summarized Public Health France in its weekly bulletin on acute respiratory infections.
“We are in the growth phase of the epidemic and the school holidays have caused this growth to pause in some way but that has not broken the dynamic,” virology professor Bruno Lina commented to BFMTV. “We anticipate that there is still at least 2 to 3 weeks of increase in the number of cases ahead of us.”
Decline of bronchiolitis
From now on, in mainland France, only Brittany and Normandy are not yet fully affected by the flu epidemic. However, they should follow, being until then in the pre-epidemic phase.
Overseas, Guadeloupe and Guyana remain in the epidemic phase, Martinique has moved to the pre-epidemic phase. But the epidemic is over in Mayotte.
If the flu continues to spread, that of bronchiolitis, which mainly affects babies, is on the decline.
“Uses to the emergency room and hospitalizations following a visit for bronchiolitis in children under 2 years old were decreasing for the fifth consecutive week,” noted Public Health France, also noting “a decrease in SOS Médecins medical procedures”.
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If eight mainland regions remain affected, five regions are no longer considered an epidemic area, including Ile-de-France, since the first week of January.
Reflux du Covid-19
As for Covid-19, the virus continues to circulate actively, but the decline observed for several weeks has continued, in community medicine and in hospitals.
Overall, “the circulation of respiratory viruses remains at a high level in hospitals, with a very clear increase in the detection of influenza viruses,” summarized the health agency.
In this context, in addition to insisting on the vaccination of people most at risk once morest 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 (29%) have received an anti-Covid vaccine booster 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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