The flu and bronchiolitis epidemics that have been circulating in France for several weeks and have undermined the health system continue to diminish.
According to the latest figures from Public Health France, although it still strikes the whole of the metropolis, the flu epidemic has continued to decline in recent days in France. Last week was marked by a “decrease in influenza indicators in all age groups and in all metropolitan areas”, summarizes the public health agency in its weekly report. The bronchiolitis epidemic has also receded to the point of ending in the Paris region, summarized Wednesday January 18 Public health France.
However, the flu is still at an epidemic stage throughout mainland France, as well as most of the overseas territories, and its “severity” characterizes her this season. “An upward recovery in flu indicators is still possible in the weeks to come”warns the agency, despite the context of calm on the front of the various winter epidemics in France.
A year-end marked by a triple epidemic
The end of 2022 was in fact marked by the conjunction of three epidemics: that of Covid-19, that of influenza, which turned out to be quite early, and, in infants, that of bronchiolitis, which resulted in hospitalizations unprecedented in the last ten years.
The current wave of Covid-19 is now clearly declining, as is that of bronchiolitis, to the point that Ile-de-France is no longer affected by this epidemic. Last week was marked by a “decline in the bronchiolitis epidemic in the majority of regions in metropolitan France”underlines Public Health France.
Several regions should soon join Île-de-France, as they are already in the so-called “post-epidemic”. This is the case of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Brittany, Centre-Val de Loire, Grand-Est, Hauts-de-France and Occitanie. Overseas, Guyana is in the same situation, while the epidemic continues in Guadeloupe, Martinique and Mayotte.