She comes back, but alone… and that’s reassuring. The flu which had contributed at the start of winter to an unusual “triple epidemic” situation, with several waves of Covid as well as an outbreak of bronchiolitis, has returned to France.
Last week saw a “stability of the majority of flu indicators for all ages in the city and in hospitals”, according to a weekly report from Public Health France. The flu epidemic, which arrived quite early in France this season, had calmed down at the start of the year, but has resumed in recent weeks.
Hauts-de-France and Normandy come out of it
However, this rise is now slowing markedly, with the number of cases well below the peak of the first wave, suggesting that this recovery will not reach the levels of the end of 2022.
Last week, the epidemic therefore did not record any significant development: in mainland France, 11 out of 13 regions are still affected, only Hauts-de-France and Normandy being in the phase of emerging from the epidemic. Overseas, the West Indies and Guyana are still affected.
Declining bronchiolitis
The bronchiolitis epidemic, in decline since the end of December, continues to end across French territory. It ended in five new regions: Centre-Val de Loire, Corsica, Normandy, New Aquitaine and Provence-Alpes Côte d’Azur. However, it continues in Mayotte and Reunion.