They find an increase in Covid cases in Malaga, but do not consider this alarming.

Bye influenza and bronchiolitis drop sharply as the temperature rises, COVID-19 It does not serve stations. In fact, health workers have noted an increase in this infection in recent weeks. Thus, coronavirus infections have a saw-tooth behavior. And now there is a promotion. “This week there is a slight rebound compared to the previous one,” confirms Head of the Pulmonology Department of the José Luis Velasco Clinical Hospital. He hints at an increase in hospitalizations, which, as he explains, corresponds to an increase in infection rates in the population.

But the specialist hastened to clarify that “no reason to worry” because, at least for now, Covid is like a cold; with fever, cough and runny nose. However, he insists that the income is not related to the coronavirus, but to the coronavirus. “This is income from people who previously had pathologies and became ill. During routine tests, they are diagnosed with Covid due to their temperature,” he explained. But he emphasized that the reason for his hospitalization and long-term hospitalization was not this virus, but the underlying pathologies. These patients have a similar profile to older adults vaccinated against the coronavirus.

But Velasco remembers that last winter, more people were hospitalized with the flu than with Covid symptoms. Experts have been insisting for quite some time that this pathogen was addedlike another one to the spectrum of respiratory infections. The difference is that coronavirus, unlike others, does not have a seasonal behavior.

An increase in Covid incidence has been recorded for several weeks. Latest report on Carlos III Health Institute on respiratory infections confirms the rise and fall of cases like a sawtooth. Hospitalization rates due to the virus remained low until Christmas. After a slight increase from then until Epiphany, the number of hospitalizations fell again, to less than one per 100,000 residents by the end of January.

However, Andalusia has seen “new growth” in recent weeks, according to a report from an institute dependent on Ministry of Health. Precisely, in the period from May 13 to 19, the rate is 2.8 hospitalizations per 100 thousand inhabitants.

The Andalusian Health Authority recommends vulnerable population (chronic patients, people over 65 years of age, health and social care workers) protection against Covid using tools that have already proven effective during the pandemic, such as hand hygiene, masks and social distancing when symptoms of respiratory disease appear.

It should be noted that at the community level Statistics no longer include all cases of infection Because many people who become infected with the virus – because they are not seriously ill and pass off the infection as a simple cold – in most cases do not even get tested. Thus, most cases go undiagnosed and unreported.

Facing behavior Covid rollercoaster, flu This is once again confirmed to be a seasonal virus. Hospitalizations peaked in the first week of January, with 10.1 cases per 100,000 residents. But since then it has been gradually declining. In week 20 of the year, which runs from May 13 to 19, the hospitalization rate was 0.3 per 100,000 residents.

Him too respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), the main cause of bronchiolitis, experiences an increase in the autumn-winter period, but then begins to decrease. According to a report from the Carlos III Institute, the increase in hospitalizations due to RSV began in Andalusia around November 20. From there, it rose until it peaked in the first week of January, when the hospitalization rate was 5.0 per 100,000 residents. Since then there has been a clear decline and in the most recent period for which data is available – from 13 to 19 May – the rate is 0 per 100,000.