Influenza cases showing signs of decreasing

On a national scale, influenza activity continued to decrease this past week.

Indicators of RSV activity were either increasing or stable and indicators of COVID-19 activity were decreasing or stable.

Between November and January, the Canadian Sentinel Practitioner Surveillance Network estimates that the risk of medically-attended influenza A(H3N2) illness was reduced by 40% among vaccinated relative to unvaccinated individuals.

In this province, the percentage of tests positive for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 was 2.7%.

The percentage of tests positive for influenza in the Atlantic area was 11.8% while the percentage of tests positive for respiratory syncytial virus in the Atlantic was 6.1%.