Flu wave in Berlin: Infections rise rapidly!

Flu wave in Berlin: Infections rise rapidly!

The flu season in Berlin has started on speed, as the Berliner Zeitung reported. The number of reported influenza cases has increased explosively and now reaches 281 cases, which corresponds to almost doubling compared to the last report. In the entire capital, 1168 cases have been registered since the beginning of the season in October, a value that is clearly above the average values ​​from 2015 to 2019, ahead of Corona pandemic.

The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) informs in its current weekly report that the activity of acute respiratory diseases (are) also remains high, even though it has decreased at the turn of the year as in previous years. In the first calendar week in 2025, ARE incidence was around 6,300 per 100,000 inhabitants, which corresponds to about 5.3 million people with acute respiratory diseases. In addition, the incidence of flu -like diseases (ILI) shows a similar trend, with 1,200 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the first week, which is not uninteresting in the life of the citizens, since the values ​​are now in the area of ​​the pre -pandemic years, as the RKI reports.

an increase in respiratory diseases

The RKI emphasizes that the acute respiratory diseases in the population are caused by various viruses, with rhinos and enteroviruses also found in addition to influenza. This situation causes worrying increases in the hospital stays of patients with respiratory infections in which influenza is increasingly diagnosed. The last week of 2024 and the turn of the year usually brought declines, which, however, rose again in the first week of 2025, which indicates the current flu wave.

It is important to note that despite the increase in respiratory diseases, the COVID-19 incidence remains at a relatively low level and has been declining since autumn 2024, with around 200 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the first week 2025. Berliner Zeitung and the RKI emphasize.