NATIONAL WEEKLY RSV BULLETIN OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
week 18 of 2024 (29.04.24 - 05.05.24)
Non-sentinel surveillance data were received from 21 cities (Belgorod, Birobidzhan, Vologda, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Kaliningrad, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, Kursk, Lipetsk, Moscow, Murmansk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Perm, Petrozavodsk, St. Petersburg, Tula, Khabarovsk, Chelyabinsk) located in 6 Federal Districts. A total of 2127 patients with ARVI were tested by PCR for RSV, of which 40 (1.9%) were positive. This included 20 (5.6%) cases aged 0-2 years, 3 (1.2%) cases aged 3-6 years, 6 (2.0%) cases aged 7-14 years and 11 (0.9%) cases aged 15 years and older.
PCR testing data for RSV from week 40 of 2023 to week 18 of 2024 showed a total 130960 patients were investigated, including 18145 children aged 0-2 years, 11761 children aged 3-6 years, 16408 children aged 7-14 years and 84646 patients aged 15 years or older. RSV as a cause of acute respiratory infection was more commonly detected among children aged 0-2 years.
The cumulative detection rate among children aged 0-2 years from week 40 of 2023 to week 18 of 2024 was 11.0%. Among children aged 3-6 years, the detection rate was 5.1%, among children aged 7-14 years - 2.2%. The RSV detection rate among patients aged 15 years or older was 0.8%.
In the period from week 40 of 2023 to week 18 of 2024, RSV was detected in all weeks except week 40. The average RSV detection rate was approximately 2.8%. The highest weekly detection rate of approximately 6.8% was reported on week 09 2024.