“Almost 10,000 deaths from COVID-19 were reported to WHO in December, mostly in Europe and US, and there was a 42% increase in hospitalizations and a 62% increase in [intensive care unit] admissions, compared with November,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general at the World Health Organization.
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The disease’s impact on the health care system is compounded by an increasing number of cases of coronavirus and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.
Other parts of the continent, including Germany and the United Kingdom, have observed a spike in cases of the three diseases — COVID, RSV and flu — in recent weeks.
“Following relatively low respiratory illness activity over the summer period, consultation rates increased in primary care settings from September,” it said in a press release in December.
The rates of severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) cases presenting to secondary care were at a level comparable to the same time last year and are now notably increasing in some countries.
Ten countries in Europe, including Italy and Spain, reported seasonal influenza activity above the 10% positivity testing rates in sentinel primary care.
The Italian National Institute of Health has estimated that around 2 million people were infected with COVID, RSV or influenza in the last two weeks of 2023.
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