{"id":5165,"date":"2026-01-04T21:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T21:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=5165"},"modified":"2026-01-04T21:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T21:51:13","slug":"southern-switzerland-hardest-hit-by-the-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/01\/04\/southern-switzerland-hardest-hit-by-the-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Switzerland hardest hit by the flu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over 2,000 Swiss residents were sidelined by the flu during Christmas, with cases doubling compared to the previous year. Canton Ticino in the south is the hardest-hit region, recording the country&#8217;s highest infection rates. While flu cases rose 30% in a single week, medical consultations for high fevers and coughs have also surged. Health officials added that while RSV is beginning to circulate, coronavirus levels have already peaked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> December 26, 2025. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/various\/southern-switzerland-hardest-hit-by-the-flu\/90692051\">swissinfo.ch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 2,000 Swiss residents were sidelined by the flu during Christmas, with cases doubling compared to the previous year. Canton Ticino in the south is the hardest-hit region, recording the country&#8217;s highest infection rates. While flu cases rose 30% in a single week, medical consultations for high fevers and coughs have also surged. Health officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":5168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-pandemics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5171,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions\/5171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}