Acute Respiratory Infections – COVID-19, Influenza and others
Date: 09/04/2025
Epidemiology
- Weekly report about the activity of acute respiratory infections in Germany (in German), based on various data sources
- How is the activity of acute respiratory infections monitored in Germany? - a short introduction (22.10.2024)
- Dashboard on the activity of acute respiratory infections in Germany based on the syndromic surveillance (in German)
- Infection radar by the Federal Ministry of Health, with different indicators (in German)
- Dashboard with SARS-CoV-2 variants in Germany (Integrated Genomic Surveillance) (in German)
- Systemic surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater
- Infectious Disease Epidemiology Annual Report (summary in English)
- SurvStat – individual queries on reported data
- European Influenza Surveillance Network (EISN)
- New perspectives on respiratory syncytial virus surveillance at the national level: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic (European Respiratory Journal, with RKI participation, 2023)
Diagnostics
- German National Reference Centre for Influenza and Consultant Laboratory for RSV, parainfluenza viruses and metapneumoviruses at RKI
- National Reference Center for Coronaviruses (Charité, Berlin)
Research
- OpenData of RKI on Zenodo and GitHub
- COVID-19: Surveillance and studies by RKI
- Publications on COVID-19 with RKI participation (2020 until January 2024) [PDF, 301KB, File does not meet accessibility standards]
Prevention and treatment
- How can I protect myself and others from respiratory infections? (9.1.2025)
- Vaccination recommendations and updates by the Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO)
- COVID-19 vaccination: Information sheets for different vaccines
- Influenza vaccination: Information sheet
- Vaccination against pneumococcal disease: Information sheet
- Vaccination against RSV (people aged 60 years and over): Information sheet
- Passive immunisation against RSV: Information sheet
- Prophylaxis and treatment of influenza: options, antiviral susceptibility, and existing recommendations (GMS Infect Dis., 2021)
- Paul Ehrlich Institute: Federal Institute for Vaccines and Biomedicines
Long COVID
International situation
- ECDC: weekly Communicable Disease Threats Report
- FluNewsEurope
- WHO-Updates on Influenza, COVID-19 and RSV
Further information
- RKI Expert Advisory Board on Pandemic Acute Respiratory Infections
- RKI Unit 36: Respiratory Infections
- RKI Unit 17: Influenza viruses and other respiratory tract viruses
- RKI Unit 33: Immunization/STIKO
- Federal Institute for Public Health: Information on COVID-19 also available in several languages
- Federal Institute for Public Health: Information on different pathogens incl. COVID-19, Influenza, RSV