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Respiratory infections. Week 10 2024

14th March 2024

The new summary examines the incidence of respiratory infections and hospitalisations due to them and compares the situation in Iceland with the situation in Europe.

Öndunarfærasýkingar. Nýtt tölublað

-Automatic translation

Diagnoses of COVID-19 and RSV have steadily decreased since the beginning of the year, but influenza is still circulating. Most diagnosed cases of influenza this winter have been of the influenza A strain.

The number of people admitted to Landspítali with respiratory viral infections has decreased since the beginning of the year. No one was hospitalised with COVID-19 in the last two weeks.

Recently, both measles and mumps have been diagnosed in Iceland. So far, seven cases of mumps and one case of measles have been diagnosed this year. A vaccination campaign is ongoing at the primary health care to reduce the impact of both diseases, primarily in the capital area.

A new summary reviews the incidence of respiratory infections in week 10 of 2024 in more detail.

The Chief Epidemiologist