Influenza: just over 2 million Italians affected, 99,500 in a week

Milan, March 19 (beraking latest news Salute) – Great flu absent in the 2020-2021 winter season: probably thanks to the anti-pandemic prevention measures, the ‘good side’ of the Covid-19 emergency is an Italy without flu. This is confirmed by the latest bulletin of the network of sentinel doctors Influnet of the Higher Institute of Health, relating to the tenth week of 2021 (8-14 March), when “the estimated cases of flu-like syndrome, compared to the entire Italian population, are about 99,500, for a total of about 2,086,000 cases since the start of surveillance. In all the Italian Regions that have activated the surveillance “, ie all except Sardinia and Calabria,” the incidence level of flu-like syndromes is below the threshold basal “, reads the report.

The incidence therefore remains “stably below the basal threshold, with a value equal to 1.65 cases per thousand assisted. In the last season – recalls the ISS – in this same week the curve continued its descent after reaching the epidemic peak seasonal, and the incidence level was 4.1 cases per thousand assisted “.

In detail, in the week in question, “in the age group 0-4 the incidence is equal to 3.43 cases per thousand assisted, in the age group 5-14 years at 1.61, in the age group 15-64 years to 1.76, and among individuals aged 65 or over to 0.96 cases per thousand assisted “.