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Flu hospitalizations in the Basque Country have decreased following the increase in vaccination

Osakidetza reports that 16.7% of the population has been vaccinated and asks children under 60 to be vaccinated.

GRAFCAV5471. BARAÑÁIN (NAVARRA) (ESPAÑA), 20/10/2025.- El consejero de Salud Fernando Domínguez ha presentado este lunes en el Centro de Salud de Barañáin la campaña de vacunación contra la gripe y el Covid del curso 25-26. En imagen una paciente recibiendo la vacuna contra la gripe. EFE/Iñaki Porto
Osakidetza has called on the population to vaccinate against influenza. Photo: EFE.

Influenza hospitalizations have decreased in Álava, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa over the course of this week. 34 hospitalizations have been recorded in Basque centres, half of which were recorded last week. 

In total, 243 hospital admissions and 2,346 cases of influenza have been recorded since the start of this campaign, with an incidence of 160.78 per cent in Bizkaia, 57.8 per cent in Gipuzkoa and 23.57 per cent in Álava.

Osakidetza has reported that, following the strengthening of the vaccination campaign, immunizations may have increased and this may have affected the decline in hospital admissions. Within this vaccination campaign, the opening of the vaccination centre in the La Casilla pavilion in Bilbao, where 10,124 people have been vaccinated this year, 31.4% of them for the first time.

In all the centres enabled in the campaign, 383,148 doses have been administered in total and 16.7 per cent of the population has been covered, up to 43 per cent among those over 60 years of age and down to 5 per cent among those under 60 years of age who have been invited to be vaccinated by Osakidetza.

 

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