The latest situation of acute respiratory diseases in the country / positive samples of influenza have increased sharply.
The Ministry of Health announced the latest report on acute respiratory diseases in Israel until 23 September 2015.
According to this report, in the week ending November 13, 10.6% of hospitalized clients had symptoms of a severe acute respiratory infection (SARI); Also, 9.4% of the outpatients had flu-like symptoms.
The results of the surveillance system show that the percentage of positive influenza samples increased sharply and reached 26.3%.
In the laboratory treatment system, among the 7,740 breath samples tested, 1,189 samples (15.4%) were positive for influenza.
Influenza type B is the dominant strain in circulation with a share of 72.9%, and 53% of positive cases of influenza are children.
At the same time, the percentage of positive samples of Covid-19 was around 8.5%.