Flu virus trends heading in wrong direction as calendar turns – By CBC News Staff (CBC News) / Jan 4, 2023
Flu activity stopped dropping in the last week of 2022, while other viruses rise again
Ottawa’s flu trends stopped improving in the final week of 2022 while COVID-19 and other respiratory virus activity rose again, according to the weekly update from the city’s health unit.
In its previous two reports, Ottawa Public Health (OPH) had considered the overall flu situation to be getting better and the other viruses to be stable.
But as of the week ending Dec. 31, OPH says levels of flu virus in the city’s wastewater are high while test positivity rates are moderate. The health unit is monitoring two outbreaks, a number it considers to be low.
Ottawa’s number of confirmed flu cases during the week of Dec. 18 to 24 — the most recent week that data was publicly available — remains higher than the pre-pandemic average.
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