Sharp increase in influenza, towards 3 million cases

In the week of 2020 there was a sharp increase in the number of cases of flu, especially in young adults and the elderly. To say this is the surveillance bulletin Influnet, edited by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS). The cases (in the week between 6 and 12 January) were 374,000, for a total, from mid-October, of about 2,268,000 people in bed. Adding up the first few days of this week, the number of those affected thus approaches 3 million cases. Piedmont, Lombardy, Liguria, Umbria, and Lazio among the most affected regions