Overview
- The lendakari warned the flu strain is unusually strong and early this season and called on residents to get vaccinated.
- Cumulative flu cases reached 1,735 after four weeks, triple the same period last year, with 583 cases reported last week and regional incidence at 78.58 per 100,000 led by Vizcaya at 118.
- Hospital admissions climbed to 192 patients, compared with 21 at this point last year.
- To lift low uptake—13% of the population and 34% of those over 60—Osakidetza opened a reinforcement center at La Casilla that has administered 4,799 doses.
- Emergency visits for flu account for 0.88% of activity regionwide, while Bilbao’s Hospital Santa Marina reports 3.53% and 85% bed occupancy versus a roughly 75% regional average.