The flu continues to drop and the number of people admitted for covid decreases in Catalonia

The flu incidence continues to decline after epidemic peak recorded at Christmas and covid-19 follows stabilized at low levels, with a decrease in the number of hospitalized patients, now less than 500.

Epidemiological data for the week of January 9 to 15 published by the Catalan Ministry of Health continue to show that the number of cases of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is falling. gatherings of family and friends during Christmas holidays didn’t bounce it acute respiratory infections, whose incidence has stabilized at low levels.

The website flu rest the most common virus (16.3% of sentinel system samples), followed by rhinovirus (13.7%), respiratory syncytial virus (10.3%) and SARS-CoV-2 (6.4%).

However, influenza and RSV continue to decline and the coronavirus fluctuates at low levels, with an estimated overall rate of 41 cases per 100,000 population (last week it was 45).

The number of people admitted in covid continues to decrease, 467, 90 less than the previous week (557), with a high proportion of patients aged over 60 (82.3%).

About the here, remain stable at very low levels, with only 24 patients, and covid mortality (provisional data) was 22 deaths last week.

Pressure of care

Despite the decrease in the incidence of acute respiratory infections, the site assist pressure is maintained in various hospital emergency departments, which receive profiles of elderly patients or patients with other pathologies, decompensated by the viral infection.

A week before the doctors’ strike, on January 24 and 25, as part of the primary care slightly increased the diagnoses acute respiratory infections in the first week after the end of the Christmas holidays: 48,636 cases were detected, compared to 48,180 the previous week.

In all cases, the volume is lower than the number of cases diagnosed in the last week of 2022 (53,504) or those of mid-December (72,740 weekly cases).