Pacific Syndromic Surveillance System Weekly Bulletin / Système de Surveillance Syndromique dans le Pacifique - Bulletin Hebdomadaire: W10 2025 (Mar 03-Mar 09) [EN/FR]

Alerts :

• AFR: Fiji (1)
• Dengue-like-illness (DLI): Kiribati (5)

Respiratory virus epidemiology in the Pacific Island Countries for EPI – WK 10, 2025

• PSSS, EPI -WK10, 2025 Influenza-like Illness (ILI), Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI), and COVID-19-like cases are compared to WK9, 2024 and tabulated as below for easy comparison (▼ Decreasing ▲ Increasing ● Stable). To provide additional context on the figures and trends, the percentage of country sentinel sites reporting WK9 & WK10, 2025 are also included. Reporting below 80% is indicated as ▼low reporting and – is no report available.
• Please refer Seasonal Influenzafor Pacific Island Countries and Areas - ILI Surveillance
• Attached is the weekly bulletin for your reference and additional information.
• Actual increase in the number of ILI cases has been seen in RMI and Wallis & Futuna for the week. Increased SARI cases seen in CNMI, Samoa, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands; Increased COVID-19 cases seen in Solomon Islands for the week. The increased ILI cases seen in Fiji, New Caledonia and Vanuatu may be due to the increased number of sites reporting for the week.
• The reduction in the number of ILI cases has been seen in Kiribati, CNMI, Samoa and Tonga for the week. Decreased SARI cases seen in Tonga and Wallis & Futuna for the week. Decreased COVID-19 cases seen in CNMI for the week.
• No ILI cases reported in Pitcairn Islands ; no SARI cases reported from New Caledonia, RMI, Pitcairn Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Wallis and Futuna. Furthermore, no COVID-19 cases were identified in Fiji Kiribati, RMI, New Caledonia, Samoa, Tuvalu, Tonga and Vanuatu for the week.
• No reports were available from Cook Islands, Nauru, Guam, French Polynesia, FSM, Palau, Niue and Tokelau for the week.
• American Samoa has not participated in the surveillance.
• Surveillance figures are not intended to capture all country cases but to describe trends over time and are invaluable when trends rise beyond country baselines which should then trigger alerts and timely actions to characterize the actual nature and magnitude of the disease.

Influenza and Other Respiratory Virus in PICs:

• Palau in Week 10, conducted Biofire tests on 3 cases of respiratory viruses, with one (33%) returning positive for respiratory pathogens