Influenza virus and Covid-19: The course of cases and deaths in the week of October 30-November 5, 2023

Tthe period October 30-November 5, 2023, 41 people from 49 compared to the previous record, they are hospitalized intubatedas they were offended by coronavirus Covid-19while its total cases subvariant Pirola (BA.2.86) now amount to 116 from 96, paccording to his information EODY.

Detailed information from EODY

Influenza syndromes (regardless of pathogen)

the number of influenza cases per 1,000 visits is low

SARS-CoV2 virus-Covid-19 infection

the positivity in all tested samples showed a decrease compared to the previous week
the number of admissions (n=781) showed a decrease of 22% compared to the average weekly number of admissions in the previous 4 weeks and was lower than the number of admissions in the corresponding week of 2022
the number of new intubations (n=24) showed an increase compared to the average weekly number of new intubations over the previous 4 weeks (n=21) and was lower than the number of intubations in the corresponding week of 2022
the number of intubated patients with Covid-19 infection is 41
57 deaths were recorded with a median age of 87 years (range 63–96 years). The number of deaths showed a small decrease compared to the average weekly number of deaths in the previous 4 weeks (n=59) and was lower than the number of deaths in the corresponding week of
2022
at week 42 the most frequent BA.2 sub-variant was XBB.1.5 (49%), followed by EG.5 (23%) and XBB.1.16 (16%)
in Greece a total of 116 positive samples of the BA.2.86 sub-variant have been recorded, with sampling dates from September 5 to October 20
viral load surveillance in municipal wastewater showed an increase in SARSCoV-2 virus circulation in 1 of 9 areas tested

Influenza virus

community flu positivity remains below 10% (sentinel)
no new serious case with ICU hospitalization, no new death from laboratory-confirmed influenza
from week 40/2023 to week 44/2023, 3 people with laboratory-confirmed influenza were hospitalized in ICU and 2 deaths from laboratory-confirmed influenza were recorded
in the two influenza reference centers, from week 40/2023 to week 44/2023, 12 samples positive for influenza viruses (sentinel samples and hospital samples) have been recorded, namely 11 (92%) were type A and one (8%) ) type B. All type A strains belonged to subtype A(H1)pdm09

Respiratory syncytial virus-RSV