The flu epidemic, early this year in France, has accelerated further in recent days, the public health agency summarized on Wednesday.

“The intensification of the circulation of influenza viruses in all metropolitan regions continues (t)”, noted Public Health France in a weekly report on the last week.

Hospitalizations, in particular, more than doubled in one week, to some 1,500 cases in Île-de-France.

The flu epidemic, which is currently affecting all regions of mainland France and most of the overseas territories after having reached Guadeloupe and Guyana, is early this year.

This "early start exposes to a large-scale epidemic, with a peak expected at the end of December", summarized the Covars, heir to the Scientific Council - which managed the Covid-19 epidemic -, in an opinion published Monday on the triple epidemic. flu/bronchiolitis/Covid.



The Covid-19 precisely, which is currently experiencing a new wave even if it is slowing down, complicates the deal for health services in the face of the flu.

Especially since an epidemic of bronchiolitis has been hitting infants for weeks at an unprecedented level for ten years.

In this context of multiple epidemics, the health authorities are once again calling on people at risk - especially the elderly - to be vaccinated against influenza and Covid-19, while vaccination campaigns remain this year at the train.

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