NATIONAL WEEKLY RSV BULLETIN OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

week 40 of 2025 (29.09.25 - 05.10.25)

Non-sentinel surveillance data were received from 37 cities (Arkhangelsk, Astrakhan, Belgorod, Birobidzhan, Volgograd, Vologda, Voronezh, Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk, Kazan, Kaliningrad, Kemerovo, Kirov, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Kursk, Lipetsk, Moscow, Murmansk, Novosibirsk, Norilsk, Omsk, Orenburg, Perm, Petrozavodsk, Petropavlovsk, St. Petersburg, Simferopol, Smolensk, Syktyvkar, Tula, Ulan-Ude, Ulyanovsk, Khabarovsk, Cheboksary, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Yakutsk) located in 7 Federal Districts. A total of 6758 patients with ARVI were tested by PCR for RSV, of which 9 (0.1%) were positive. This included 4 (0.4%) cases aged 0-2 years, 4 (0.6%) cases aged 3-6 years and 1 (0.03%) case aged 15 years and older.

PCR testing data for RSV from week 40 of 2025 showed a total 6758 patients were investigated, including 997 children aged 0-2 years, 689 children aged 3-6 years, 1363 children aged 7-14 years and 3709 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 2024 was 0.4%. Among children aged 3-6 years, the detection rate was 0.6%, among children aged 7-14 years - 0.0%. The RSV detection rate among patients aged 15 years or older was 0.03%.

The average RSV detection rate was approximately 0.1%.