The Directorate of Health
Respiratory infections. Week 5 of 2023
9th February 2023
Cases of confirmed influenza are declining but type B diagnoses are in the vast majority. Clinical diagnoses of influenza-like illness increased slightly between weeks. COVID-19 diagnoses are increasing compared to the last two weeks and over a quarter of samples were positive in the previous week.
-Automatic translation
There are also more frequent cases of scarlet fever and pharyngitis. Considerably fewer patients were diagnosed with RSV during week 5 compared to previous weeks.
Admissions to hospitals due to COVID-19 are increasing but few people were admitted due to influenza and RSV in the previous week.
A new report (Icelandic) gives a closer look at the incidence of respiratory diseases in the fifth week of 2023.
The Chief Epidemiologist