Key Points

Acute respiratory infections (ARI)

• High prevalence

Bronchiolitis

• End of the epidemic

Flu

• Ongoing epidemic

COVID-19

• Moderate circulation

Summary

Epidemiological indicators of acute respiratory infections (ARI) remained at a high level in community practice and hospital emergency departments, reflecting intense circulation of ARI in French Guiana.

Over the past two weeks (W02 and W03), the number of emergency room and primary care visits for bronchiolitis in infants remained stable, but RSV was not detected in W03 by hospital laboratories or the National Reference Center for Respiratory Viruses. French Guiana is thus moving toward the end of the RSV bronchiolitis epidemic among children under 2 years of age. At the same time, epidemiological indicators for influenza were moderate in emergency departments and showed a marked increase in primary care clinics: the influenza epidemic has been ongoing for seven weeks. Finally, regarding COVID-19, the number of emergency department visits decreased while the number of primary care clinic visits remained stable: COVID-19 is circulating at a moderate level.