They amount to 16 deaths from coronavirus, according to the weekly report (June 26 to July 2) published today Thursday by EODY. Alongside, 24 patients remain intubated while not recorded no new cases of flu.

According to EODY, the number of admissions for COVID-19 showed a decrease compared to the previous week.

Detailed data of EODY for week 26/2023:

Influenza syndromes (regardless of pathogen)

a decrease compared to the previous week was recorded in the community

SARS-CoV2 virus – COVID-19 infection

– the positivity in all tested samples showed a slight decrease compared to the previous week
-the number of admissions for COVID-19 (n=182) showed a decrease compared to the previous week and a 43% decrease compared to the average weekly number of new admissions over the previous 4 weeks
-the number of new intubations (n=4) showed a decrease compared to the previous week and a 50% decrease compared to the average weekly number of new intubations during the previous 4 weeks
– the number of patients with COVID-19 infection who are hospitalized with intubation is 24
-16 deaths were recorded with a median age of 84 years (range 68-94 years)
-in recent weeks all sequenced strains belonged to Omicron’s BA.2 and BA.5 sub-variants, with BA.2 predominating from week 9 onwards
-at week 23 the most frequent BA.2 sub-variant was XBB.1.5 (85%), followed by CH.1.1 (15%)
-surveillance of viral load in municipal wastewater showed an increase in SARSCoV-2 virus circulation in 6 out of 10 areas tested

Influenza virus

-all tested samples were negative for influenza
-no new serious case of laboratory-confirmed influenza with hospitalization in ICU was recorded in week 26/2023, nor new death from laboratory-confirmed influenza
-from week 40/2022 to week 26/2023, 68 people with flu were hospitalized in ICU and 26 deaths were recorded
-in the same period, 374 samples positive for influenza viruses (sentinel samples and hospital samples) were recorded in the two influenza reference centers, of which 290 (77.5%) were type A strains and 84 (22.5%) were type B strains
-of the 288 type A strains subtyped, 258 (90%) were classified to subtype A(H3N2) and 30 (10%) to subtype A(H1N1)pdm09

Respiratory syncytial virus – RSV

all samples tested were negative for RSV.