Valencia (EFE).- The incidence of influenza in the Valencian Community has tripled in the fifth week of the year and has stood at 268 cases per hundred thousand inhabitants (compared to 88.7 cases the previous week), a period in which the incidence of covid has also increased, to 88 cases, but that of the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has decreased, to 25.7 cases.
This is stated in the latest Bulletin of the Acute Respiratory Infection Surveillance System (IRA) of the Valencian Community, corresponding to the week of January 30 to February 5, published this Wednesday on the website of the Ministry of Health.
The incidence of Acute Respiratory Infections – the sum of the three viruses – stood at 1,348.6 cases per hundred thousand inhabitants in the fifth week, compared to 1,163.6 the previous week, and continues to double the national average, located in the fifth week in 638.3 cases.
Infections affected minors
These infections especially affected children between zero and four years of age, who presented an incidence of 4,233.1 cases per hundred thousand inhabitants, somewhat lower than the incidence of the fourth week of the year, of 4,441.2 cases.
The covid increased its incidence compared to the fourth week of the year, with 88 cases in the fifth compared to 65.3 in week four of 2023; respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) registered a significant drop (25.7 cases in the fifth week and 49 in the third); and the flu tripled from a rate of 88.7 in the fourth week to 268 in the fifth.
In the case of the incidence of serious Respiratory Infections in the hospitals of the Valencian Community, it was 21.4 in the fifth week (compared to 16.9 in the fourth), somewhat higher than the national average of 15.1 cases.