Flu cases quadruple in Spanish community during last crisis, while COVID-19 cases drop 10%

Last week, the number of influenza cases in the Valencian community quadrupled to 551 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, an increase of 287.21% from 142.3 cases in the previous week, while the number of COVID-19 infections decreased by 10.15% from 247.3 cases in the previous week, to 287.21%. 222.2 Example. period. As for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), there was an increase of 33.92% to 258.2 cases compared with 192.8 cases seven days ago.

It therefore comes from the latest bulletin (SIVIRA CV) of the Valencian Community Surveillance System for Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI), which analyzes the incidence of COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) from week 52 to 25 December. Evolution31.

In this way, the overall incidence of acute respiratory tract infections reached 1,501.3 cases, an increase of 13% from the previous notification, while the national average incidence rate was 908.6 cases. The most affected age group remains the 0 to 4 age group, with an incidence rate of 4,501.8 cases, although this is a slight decrease from the previous week’s 4,975.3 cases, followed by the 5 to 14 age group, with approximately 2,000 cases in the elderly , about 1286.8 cases between 15 and 44 years old.

For its part, the incidence of severe respiratory infections in the hospitals of the Autonomous Region of Valencia increased by 23.84% last week to 37.3 cases, compared with 21.3 cases seven days ago and also above the national average of 21 cases.

Specifically, the average age of patients with influenza was 73 years, the proportion of affected patients admitted to the ICU dropped to 5.1%, the average length of stay in the intensive care unit was 5.1 days, and the average length of stay was 4 days.

For its part, the average age of patients affected by COVID-19 was 77, 6.3% were admitted to hospital, patients admitted stayed in the intensive care unit for an average of three days, and the average length of stay was five days.