Flu season isn’t over yet. In the past week, more than 300 thousand Italians were put to bed by flu-like syndromes, although there were 25 thousand fewer than the previous week; there are 13.5 million since the beginning of the year. This is what the RespiVirNet surveillance system of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità found. In Easter week, young children were still the most affected, with 15.30 cases per thousand; in the 5-14 age group the cases were 6.96 per thousand, in the 15-64 age group 4.86 cases per thousand and in the over 65s 2.35 cases per thousand.
Among the Regions, the season ended in Basilicata, Friuli Venezia-Giulia and the Autonomous Province of Trento, where the incidence levels of flu-like syndromes returned below the baseline threshold.
The circulation of influenza viruses is decreasing: only 2.4% of the samples analyzed by the laboratories belonging to the RespiVirNet network tested positive, compared to 4.2% the previous week.
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