The flu wave has Lower Saxony and Bremen under control - masks are also celebrating a comeback. Many people become infected with the influenza virus and are currently lying flat with the flu.
Hospitals are responding with mask requirements and recommendations, and a health expert is emphasizing a return to normality, at least at the time of the flu epidemic. The infection rate is “determined, as in the previous weeks, by the increasing number of influenza illnesses and high RSV activity,” says the Robert Koch Institute.