This year's flu epidemic is not yet over in Saxony, but it is clearly flattening out. The number of reported influenza cases last week was 48 percent lower than the previous week, according to the weekly report from the State Investigation Institute (LUA) in Chemnitz. The winter vacations in particular contributed to the decline.
All age groups continued to fall ill with influenza, especially young children, primary school children and older adults. Since the start of the flu season at the end of September, 171 people with a confirmed case of influenza have died.
