China News Service, January 23. According to Euronet’s quoting EUN News Agency, on January 22, local time, the Italian National Health Institute released a report on influenza surveillance for the second week of 2021. And other epidemic prevention measures, the flu virus transmission rate has dropped to the lowest level in history, at least more than 5 times lower than the 2019-2020 season.
According to reports, the epidemic surveillance data of the Italian National Health Institute shows that during the surveillance week from January 11 to 17, 2021, for every 1,000 cases examined in Italy, 1.5 people were infected with influenza virus. In the same period in 2020, 8.5 out of every 1,000 people are infected with the new coronavirus.
During the week from January 11 to 17, Italy saw 89,000 new influenza cases, compared with 488,000 in the same period in 2020.
The number of cases of influenza virus infection in 2021 is the lowest in the past 20 years, and has fallen more than five times compared with the same period in 2020.
Giancarlo Icardi, director of the health department of the San Martino Hospital in Genoa, said that the use of masks and other measures play an important role in preventing colds.
In addition, the influenza detection system of the Italian National Health Institute found that among the 1703 sampled samples, no influenza virus infection was found, but 10 new coronavirus infections were found.
(Huang Xin)