China News Service, December 14th. According to Euronet citing EUN News Agency, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of the new crown in Italy has increased to 1843712.
The Italian National Health Institute recently pointed out that since the winter of 2020, due to the widespread adoption of anti-epidemic measures such as wearing masks and maintaining social distancing, Italian seasonal influenza patients have been greatly reduced, and the influenza virus transmission rate has dropped to the lowest level in history.
According to data from the Italian Ministry of Civil Defense's new crown epidemic report, as of 18:00 on the 13th, in the past 24 hours, the country has newly confirmed 17938 new crown cases and 484 deaths.
The total number of confirmed cases nationwide in Italy increased to 1843712, the total number of deaths was 64520, and the number of cured cases was 1093161.
On December 8, local time, in Rome, Italy, a man dressed as Santa Claus interacted with children through a live webcast.
Epidemic surveillance data from the International Health Institute show that since the first case of influenza virus was found in Italy on September 29 this year, as of early December, there has been almost no community transmission of influenza virus in Italy.
Especially due to the use of masks and frequent use of soap and alcohol solutions for hand disinfection, the incidence of influenza virus has dropped significantly.
In the most recent epidemic monitoring week in the past, the national influenza virus infection rate in Italy was 1.9‰, far lower than the average level of previous years.
In the past week, the National Epidemic Surveillance System of the National Health Institute has collected a total of 148 biological samples through the National Health System Laboratory, including 17 biological samples of people infected with the new coronavirus, but no sample of seasonal influenza virus infection was found.
According to the laboratory analysis data of the National Health Institute of Italy, from late September to early December 2019, the national seasonal influenza virus infection rate in Italy was about 3‰, and the total number of influenza patients nationwide was 174,000.
Experts predict that under the effect of epidemic prevention measures, the number of influenza patients in Italy in 2020 will fall below 115,000, which will drop by more than 30% compared with the same period in 2019.
Fabrizio Pregliasco, a researcher at the Italian National Institute of Health and a professor of virology at the University of Milan, said that in the past three to four years, influenza epidemics will often reach their peaks around Christmas, but it seems that 2020 The annual flu epidemic will not peak again.
Pregliasco called on people to stay at home during Christmas and New Year, insist on wearing masks and maintain social distance, and earnestly abide by epidemic prevention measures. While fighting the new coronavirus epidemic, we will further reduce the spread of influenza and other respiratory infectious diseases, and continuously improve the health of the whole society. (Boyuan)