(ANSA) – Rome – More and more Italians are battling the flu, which is already at a high level and has an impact on family doctors’ offices and emergencies.
It is the anticipation of a peak in infections, which usually occurs at the end of January, that leads to a greater influx of people to emergency services, also caused by partial closure of GP offices for the holidays.
“It is precisely because of this coincidence of timing that the situation seems to be worse this year than in previous years,” stressed Filippo Anelli, dean of the Faculty of Medicine, noting that the entire system, including family doctors in recent weeks, has Increased workload and inconvenience were documented.
The Higher Institute of Health yesterday highlighted the weekly increase in influenza, with the proportion of infected people just below 30% of the total sample analysed (29.4%), also stressing that in flu-like situations the current levels are the highest of all previous seasons of.
Fiaso’s data also did not report an increase in hospitalizations due to the pandemic virus, although nearly 40,000 coronavirus infections were recorded last week. (ANSA).
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