Situation Update: Week 51

Yesterday the Italian Institute of Health updated its weekly report about the swine flu in the country. The swine flu incidence (as the number of new cases in a week out 1,000 people) is abating and now it has dropped to an incidence of 1.79‰ (or 0.179%). The incidence is moderately high only in the island of Sardinia, where it is still 7.68‰.

All the regions are past the peak. Meanwhile, there have been some differences in the regional peaks of the swine flu. In Basilicata, Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Lazio, Marche, Abruzzo, Molise, Sardinia the maximum incidence has been more than 1.5%, everywhere else less than that. In Abruzzo e Marche the peak has been 3-4%, but maybe the data is wrong.