Admissions to hospitals of patients with coronavirus showed an increase in the last week, while another 32 people lost their lives from complications, according to his report EODY. Those intubated with coronavirus remain at 25.

More detailed details of the EODY report on respiratory diseases:

In summary week 36/2023:

Influenza syndromes (regardless of pathogen)

✓ remain at low levels

SARS-CoV2 virus – COVID-19 infection

✓ the positivity in all the tested samples showed a slight decrease compared to the previous week
✓ the number of admissions for COVID-19 (n=688) showed an increase compared to the previous week and a 12% increase compared to the average weekly number of new admissions over the previous 4 weeks
✓ the number of new intubations (n=9) remained stable compared to the previous week, while showing a decrease compared to the average weekly number of new intubations during the previous 4 weeks (n=12)
✓ the number of patients with COVID-19 infection who are hospitalized with intubation is 25
✓ 32 deaths were recorded with a median age of 84 years (range 65-99 years)
✓ during the last weeks all sequenced strains belonged to the Omicron sub-variant BA.2
✓ at week 32 the most frequent BA.2 sub-variant was EG.5 (41%), followed by XBB.1.16 (29%) and XBB.1.5 (21%), while at weeks 33 and 34 the incidence for all three variant strains was around 30%
✓ surveillance of viral load in municipal wastewater showed an increase in SARSCoV-2 virus circulation in 4 out of 8 areas tested

Influenza virus

✓ flu positivity in the community remains below 10% (sentinel)
✓ no new severe case of laboratory-confirmed influenza with hospitalization in ICU was recorded in week 36/2023, nor new death from laboratory-confirmed influenza
✓ from week 40/2022 to week 36/2023, 71 people with flu were hospitalized in ICU and 27 deaths were recorded
✓ during the same period, 377 samples positive for influenza viruses (sentinel samples and hospital samples) were registered in the two influenza reference centers, of which 292 (77.5%) were type A strains and 85 (22.5%) were type B strains
✓ of the 290 type A strains subtyped, 258 (89%) were classified to subtype A(H3N2) and 32 (11%) to subtype A(H1N1)pdm09

Respiratory syncytial virus – RSV

✓ all tested samples were negative for RSV