Author/Editor		Adlhoch, C; Mook, Piers; Lamb, Favelle; Ferland, Lisa; Melidou, A; Amato-Gauci, Andrew; Pebody, Richard; Sočan, Maja; Prosenc, Katarina
Title		Very little influenza in the WHO European Region during the 2020/21 season, weeks 40 2020 to 8 2021
Type		članek
Vol. and No.		Letnik 26, št. 11
Publication year		2021
Volume		str. 1-8
ISSN		1560-7917 - Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin
Language		eng
Abstract		Between weeks 40 2020 and 8 2021, the World Health Organization European Region experienced a 99.8% reduction in sentinel influenza virus positive detections (33/25,606 tested; 0.1%) relative to an average of 14,966/39,407 (38.0%; p<0.001) over the same time in the previous six seasons. COVID-19 pandemic public health and physical distancing measures may have extinguished the 2020/21 European seasonal influenza epidemic with just a few sporadic detections of all viral subtypes. This might possibly continue during the remainder of the influenza season.
Keywords		COVID-19 influenza virus epidemiology surveillance Europe 2020/21 season COVID-19 virus gripe epidemija Evropa nadzor sezona 2020/21