{"id":5067,"date":"2024-03-21T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5067"},"modified":"2024-03-21T15:10:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T19:10:34","slug":"respiratory-virus-levels-mostly-steady-but-13-flu-hospitalizations-in-latest-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/respiratory-virus-levels-mostly-steady-but-13-flu-hospitalizations-in-latest-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Respiratory virus levels mostly steady, but 13 flu hospitalizations in latest update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Respiratory disease levels have remained mostly steady in the past week, Ottawa Public Health says in its latest update.<\/p>\n<p>Influenza remains a major concern with 13 more patients hospitalized in the seven days ended March&nbsp;16. There were 14 new hospitalizations for COVID-19, which OPH described as \u201clow and decreasing since last week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There were 45 more confirmed COVID-19 cases, about half of them in patients 65&nbsp;years of age and older.<\/p>\n<p>Wastewater surveillance continues to indicate \u201cvery high\u201d levels for flu, while COVID and RSV readings are low and moderate, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>There were no new flu outbreaks in health-care settings, while there were three new outbreaks of COVID-19 and RSV. There are two ongoing flu outbreaks in health institution, with six outbreaks of COVID-19 and eight of RSV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Respiratory disease levels have remained mostly steady in the past week, Ottawa Public Health says in its latest update.<\/p>\n<p>Influenza remains a major concern with 13 more patients hospitalized in the seven days ended March&nbsp;16. There were 14 new hospitalizations for COVID-19, which OPH described as \u201clow and decreasing since last week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There were 45 more confirmed COVID-19 cases, about half of them in patients 65&nbsp;years of age and older.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/respiratory-virus-levels-mostly-steady-but-13-flu-hospitalizations-in-latest-update\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Respiratory virus levels mostly steady, but 13 flu hospitalizations in latest update<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,18,23,77,119,137,249,304,80,49,14],"class_list":["post-5067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-hospitals","tag-influenza","tag-ontario","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-gatineau","tag-outbreaks","tag-respiratory-syncytial-virus","tag-rsv","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5067"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5069,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067\/revisions\/5069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}