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.

Swine flu update: Week 50

Yesterday the Ministry of Health said that the swine flu has killed 163 people. In Campania the regional authority has recorded 45 deaths, in Puglia 25, in Lombardia e Calabria 12 each. In the South of Italy the fatal cases are 90, more than half of the national cases. Maybe there's a different kind of recording or updating the data, but it's really strange such a large number.
Until now the Ministry has recorded 811 hospitalized cases, which required respiratory aids in 439 cases. All the cases are 3,794,000. All over Italy the pandemic has already peaked, the total incidence is 0,22%. Only in Sardinia, where the incidence is above 1%, there's still some flu activity. The update has received almost no  coverage by the newspapers.

Situation Update: Week 44

The flu virus is now spreading fast in Italy. The Italian Health Ministry has released data about week 44 from October 26 to November 1 (updated to 5 pm). The flu incidence has risen to 8.96‰ and it's already higher than the peaks in the seasonal epidemies from 2005/06 to 2008/09. In Campania the regional incidence is 14.66‰, in Lombardia it is 13.48‰, more than 11.5‰ also in Emilia-Romagna, Marche and Lazio. Almost all the cases are caused by A(H1N1) virus (98.8%).
The fatal cases are 21 (9 in Campania, 3 in Emilia-Romagna, 4 in Lombardia, 2 in Lazio, 1 in Sicily, Tuscany and Umbria each). Vaccinated people are 41,000.

Week 43

According to the Iss data, the incidence in the 43th week of the year is 3,88 ‰ among all the people who got visited by doctors, and 13,02‰ among the 5-14 years old. The Iss released on October 28th also the local data, updated. In Campania (Naples and other cities) there is the highest incidence, but also in Lombardia (Milan) and Tuscany there are a lot of cases. Yesterday the Deputy Minister of Health Ferruccio Fazio said that in Europe only Spain has such an hign number of cases.
Piemonte 6,61 ‰
Val d'Aosta -
Pr. Aut. Bolzano 1,67
pPr. Aut. Trento 0,92
Veneto 0,88
Emilia-Romagna 3,06
Marche 4,86
Lazio 4,32
Molise -
Campania 12,37
Basilicata 1,33
Sardegna 0,55
Abruzzo 0,00
Calabria 1,08
Friuli vV.G: 0,93
Liguria 4,42
Lombardia 5,85
Puglia 1,75
Sicilia 2,13
Toscana 5,90
Umbria 2,64