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The flu epidemic seems to have subsided somewhat after a peak. Last week, 65 out of 100,000 people visited their GP with flu-like symptoms, Nivel knowledge institute reports.
A week earlier, it was still 103 out of 100,000 people.
At that time, the Nivel still spoke of a wave of “moderate intensity”, but we are now back at the level below: “low intensity”. As a rule, we speak of a flu epidemic when more than 58 per 100,000 people go to the GP with flu-like symptoms for a number of weeks in a row and the flu virus (influenza virus) is actually found in a significant proportion. That has been the case since about mid-December.
Last week, the influenza virus was found in 37 percent of the samples taken from patients with flu-like symptoms. The other patients carry other viruses, including, for example, rhinovirus and human metapneumovirus.
