{"id":612874,"date":"2025-12-05T02:12:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T02:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/612874\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T02:12:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T02:12:22","slug":"map-shows-flu-rate-by-northern-ireland-council-area-as-cases-treble-in-two-weeks-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/612874\/","title":{"rendered":"Map shows flu rate by Northern Ireland council area as cases treble in two weeks \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flu cases among children and adults<\/a> in the north have more than trebled in the last two weeks, according to the latest figures. <\/p>\n

The latest statistics from the Public Health Agency<\/a> revealed that there were 954 influenza cases this week, up from 273 recorded two weeks ago. <\/p>\n

There were also an additional 264 flu-related hospital admissions, up from 144 the previous week.<\/p>\n

Read more: <\/b>NI vaccination appeal amid \u2018very concerning\u2019 increase in \u2018nasty\u2019 flu cases<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

\"Body<\/a>\"Map<\/a><\/p>\n

For the week ending November 23, positivity rate of infection was highest among children aged five to 14 (52.3%).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Across the north, infection rate varied by council area, with Causeway Coast & Glens recording the highest rate of 36 per 100,000 population. <\/p>\n

Armagh, Banbridge & Craigavon and Belfast were the next highest areas, with rates of 29.2 and 28.1 per 100,000 population respectively. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Ards & North Down recorded the lowest rate of infection per 100,000 population at 14.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt told the PA news agency that the numbers were \u201cvery concerning\u201d and that the flu outbreak has \u201ccome very early\u201d and \u201chit us extremely hard\u201d. <\/p>\n

He has encouraged members of the public to take get a flu vaccine, particularly those who have an underlying condition. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

While the number of flu cases has been steadily on the rise, the number of COVID-19 and RSV infections has fallen in recent weeks. <\/p>\n

Over the last six weeks, the number of COVID-19 cases has fallen by almost 80% – from 97 to 20. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flu cases among children and adults in the north have more than trebled in the last two weeks,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[44715,43583,23524,1144,127016,1093,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-612874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-covid19","9":"tag-flu","10":"tag-mike-nesbitt","11":"tag-northern-ireland","12":"tag-pha","13":"tag-public-health","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115664542400618659","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}