The NPHS influenza surveillance scheme estimates there were 44.5 cases of a flu-like illness diagnosed by GPs out of every 100,000 people in Wales – the equivalent of 1,335 people in Wales contacting their GPs in the last seven days with flu like symptoms.
Not all of these people will have swine flu and not everyone with flu like symptoms will contact their GP.
It is expected that the proportion of influenza cases diagnosed that are due to swine flu will increase as the virus spreads in Wales.
The report also shows levels of influenza activity in each county of Wales. On 16 July, the rate of diagnosis of flu-like illness at a local level ranged from 16.3 per 100,000 people in Neath Port Talbot to 84.0 per 100,000 people in Newport.
There have been 71 laboratory confirmed cases in Wales, with two new cases - a 46-year-old man form Rhondda Cynon Taff and an 18-year-old youth from Pembrokeshire.
Thirteen people with swine flu have been hospitalised in Wales, 11 of whom have been discharged.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
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