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December 19, 2019 With 207,000 infections in the past week and 1,099,000 cases from October to today, the flu has exceeded the threshold that triggers the epidemic. To update the estimates is the latest bulletin for the surveillance of influenza syndromes Influnet, edited by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità.

In the 50th week of 2019, or from 9th to 15th December, the total incidence was 3.4 cases per thousand assisted, "comparable to that of last flu season".

Most affected children under the age of five. The regions most affected, the report continues, are Piedmont, Lombardy, the autonomous province of Trento, Emilia-Romagna, Umbria and the Marche.