Overview

• In Dresden, sick notes are increasing as the RKI says common cold viruses, COVID‑19 and parainfluenza are driving infections while influenza remains at a lower but rising level.
• Local reporting shows COVID‑19 detections climbed from 58 cases in August to 138 in September among symptomatic residents.
• Through early October, 18 influenza infections were confirmed in the city, and 18 people tested positive for RSV.
• Health commissioner Kristin Kaufmann received a flu shot publicly at the municipal hospital and called on residents to get vaccinated.
• Authorities recommend vaccination between October and mid‑December, which can be given alongside a COVID‑19 shot, underscored by last season’s more than 5,000 cases and 29 deaths.