Covid-19 cases rebound and return to January levels

Covid-19 cases rebound and return to January levelsgerman knight

This is a common comment among any group of friends or family.hecoronavirus Has been strongly returned to circulation In the Valencian community, this is not just a subjective opinion. Pharmacies have noticed this, the increase in sales of test kits for the new crown, and the monitoring system of the Valencia Autonomous Region government has also recorded this improvement: from the last week of July to the first week of August, Caseload up 49% In mid-August, the incidence of new coronary pneumonia has returned to the level of January last year.

Sales of COVID-19 antigen tests up 174%

The latest announcement is this SiVIRA Monitoring System Track respiratory infections in the Valencian community, including covid-19 and influenza, respiratory syncytial virus and more. In the first week of August, the expected impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic on 165 per 100,000 inhabitants Compared with last week’s 111.As a result, the case curve has been on a vertical upward trend since mid-July, while Incidence of other infections, such as influenza or bronchiolitis (caused by RSV) remains low.

In this way, in mid-August, it was back Same epidemiological situation as in mid-January (Infection rates were declining at the time) However, now that both influenza and VRS are at their lowest levels, the overall incidence of respiratory infections has nothing to do with that time.now you are in a 498 cases per 100,000 inhabitants

At that point it was over 1000.

few serious infections

The same is not true of hospitals.Because despite the rebound in new crown cases, this This does not mean an increase in severe cases requiring hospitalization. The subvariants in circulation are not more aggressive, and the cross-immunity the population has (due to contagion and vaccination) also helps.The fact that the coronavirus spreads more will now be taken into account Seniors encouraged to get vaccinated next fallIn addition to new vaccines adapted to the latest variants of SARS-CoV-2, because they are the most prone to decompensation of an underlying disease after infection, like the flu.

According to the Public Health Bulletin, the elderly are not the group most affected by the new crown epidemic after the health alert was lifted, but the youngest group. The incidence of respiratory infections was much higher in children under 4 years of age, followed by children aged 5 to 14 years.