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. 2021 Oct;26(42):2100937.
doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.42.2100937.

Enhanced national surveillance of severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) within COVID-19 surveillance, Slovenia, weeks 13 to 37 2021

Irena Klavs  1 , Mojca Serdt  1 , Veronika Učakar  1 , Marta Grgič-Vitek  1 , Mario Fafangel  1 , Maja Mrzel  1 , Lina Berlot  1 , Uroš Glavan  1 , Marjana Vrh  1 , Tanja Kustec  1 , Miha Simoniti  2 , Božena Kotnik Kevorkijan  3 , Tatjana Lejko Zupanc  4 ; EPISARI Network  5 ; Members of the EPISARI Network
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Enhanced national surveillance of severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) within COVID-19 surveillance, Slovenia, weeks 13 to 37 2021

Irena Klavs et al. Euro Surveill. 2021 Oct.

Abstract

We monitored trends of severe COVID-19 morbidity in Slovenia during weeks 13 to 37 2021. National weekly rates of severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) cases testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 at admission in all hospitals varied between 0.2 and 16.3 cases per 100,000 population. Of those without previous COVID-19 diagnosis, SARI COVID-19 admission rates ranged between 0.3 and 17.5 per 100,000 unvaccinated, and 0.0 and 7.3 per 100,000 fully vaccinated individuals. National SARI COVID-19 surveillance is essential in informing COVID-19 response.

Keywords: COVID-19; Slovenia; severe acute respiratory infection; surveillance.

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Conflict of interest: None declared.

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Figure 1
SARI COVID-19 casesa admitted to hospitals and intensive care units and in-hospital deaths of SARI COVID-19 cases, Slovenia, weeks 13 to 37 2021
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Figure 2
SARI COVID-19 casesa by age group, Slovenia, weeks 13 to 37 2021
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Figure 3
Patients admitted with COVID-19 as a secondary diagnosisa, community-acquired COVID-19 cases diagnosed during hospitalisation, and healthcare-associated COVID-19 cases diagnosed during hospitalisation, Slovenia, weeks 13 to 37 2021
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Figure 4
Admission rates of SARI COVID-19 casesa among unvaccinated individuals without previous COVID-19 diagnosis and among individuals fully vaccinated against COVID-19 without previous COVID-19 diagnosis, (A) overall and (B),(C),(D) according to age groups, Slovenia, weeks 13 to 37 2021
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