According to the latest Public Health Flu Flu France, the indicators are red in all metropolitan regions, and hospitalizations are increasing sharply.
mo12345lemonde with AFP
The influenza epidemic is gaining ground. While the threat of the triple epidemic of bronchiolitis, COVID-19 and influenza continues to worry, the latter has now extended to all of mainland France, the health authorities announced on Wednesday 14 December.
In the overseas territories, only Guyana and Guadeloupe remain in the pre-epidemic phase, according to the weekly balance sheet> The weekly assessment in public health France . The last days have been marked by a continuation of the increase in influenza indicators for all age groups and a “strong increase in hospitalizations” (+ 117 %).
The epidemic peak of Bronchiolitis probably reached
The triggering of the influenza epidemic, rather early this year, comes to test a health system experienced by the recurring waves of COVID-19, currently in full recovery, and by an epidemic of bronchiolitis, in babies, as we had not known for ten years.
The latter continues “at a high level” in mainland France as well as in Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique and Mayotte. Nevertheless, the health authorities noted for last week a reduction in emergency and hospital passages, “signing the very likely passage of the peak of the epidemic”.
Faced with the triple epidemic that rages in France, the government called on the French to a “start” of vaccination before the holiday season. “Vaccination and respect for barriers are the best ways to protect yourself from respiratory viruses,” recall the health authorities.