WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, Royal Melbourne Hospital, and Doherty Department, University of Melbourne, at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Australia.
FluTracking, Hunter New England Population Health, Newcastle, Australia.
Euro Surveill. 2020 Nov;25(47). doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.47.2001847.
The coronavirus disease pandemic was declared in March 2020, as the southern hemisphere's winter approached. Australia expected co-circulation of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, influenza and other seasonal respiratory viruses. However, influenza notifications were 7,029 (March-September) compared with an average 149,832 for the same period in 2015-2019 [corrected], despite substantial testing. Restrictions on movement within and into Australia may have temporarily eliminated influenza. Other respiratory pathogens also showed remarkably changed activity in 2020.
2020 年 3 月,南半球冬季临近,冠状病毒病大流行宣布爆发。澳大利亚预计严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒 2 型、流感和其他季节性呼吸道病毒将同时传播。然而,尽管进行了大量检测,但流感报告数量为 7029 例(3 月至 9 月),而 2015-2019 年同期的平均报告数量为 149832 例[更正]。澳大利亚境内和入境的人员流动限制可能暂时消除了流感。其他呼吸道病原体在 2020 年也表现出明显的活动变化。