For respiratory surveillance in Canada, visit: Respiratory Virus Detection Surveillance System and COVID-19 Data Trends
For surveillance of COVID-19 variants of concern, visit World Health Organization: Tracking SARS-CoV-2 Variants
For COVID-19 vaccination coverage in Canada, visit: COVID-19 vaccination in Canada
COVID-19 activity is low and is decreasing
Influenza activity is low and is stable
RSV activity is low and is stable
The table below provides general trends from the different surveillance indicators for each disease that is included in this report.
| COVID-19 | Influenza | RSV |
|---|---|---|---|
Percent positivity | Decreasing | Increasing | Stable |
Syndromic indicators |
| Increasing |
|
Case rates | Decreasing | Stable | Stable |
Severity | Decreasing | Decreasing | Stable |
Respiratory season | COVID-19 | Influenza A | Influenza B | RSV |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2022-2023 | 13.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.2 |
2023-2024 | 17.4 | 0.0 | 2.2 | 0.0 |
2024-2025 | 2.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.1 |
2025-2026 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
All information is subject to change as reconciliation occurs and data becomes more complete.
Epidemiological weeks are standardized ways to count events on weekly basis year after year. The epidemiological weeks used in this report run from Sunday to Saturday. A full calendar can be found on the Public Health Agency of Canada FluWatch website
This report is updated at the following frequency during respiratory season (late August to early June): laboratory, syndromic, sentinel, and active surveillance indicators updated bi-weekly; immunization indicators updated monthly.
This report is updated at the following frequency outside of respiratory season (early June to late August): laboratory, syndromic, sentinel, and active surveillance indicators updated monthly; immunization indicators not updated.
Historical means, medians, maximums, and minimums are calculated by epidemiological week. Among all respiratory seasons for which data is available, the mean, median, maximum, and minimum are found for each epidemiological week of the season.
Lab Indicators
Based on lab-based PCR tests and rapid point-of-care tests from Whitehorse General Hospital. This does not include at-home rapid tests or tests completed in private labs.
Percent positivity is based on the volume of specimens. As such, one individual can appear in the data more than once.
Data will be impacted by clinical testing criteria, availability of testing, and healthcare seeking behaviour.
Indicators stratified by rural and Whitehorse area residence reflect the information on where the person who was tested resides, and does not necessarily indicate where that person was tested or was located at the time of infection.
Wastewater surveillance data is extracted from the Public Health Agency of Canada COVID-19 wastewater surveillance dashboard
Syndromic Surveillance Indicators
Visits are classified by syndromes, which include clinician assessment and groupings of clinical signs and symptoms. As such, these are not considered diagnoses of communicable disease, and visits that are not related to respiratory viral illness may be included.
Data is presented at the visit level, as such one individual can appear in the data more than once if they have several visits.
Data may be impacted by factors such as healthcare seeking behaviour, and availability of health services.
Community health centre visits reflect the regional location of the health centre, and not necessarily the residence of people visiting the health centre.
Active Surveillance Indicators
Includes all Yukon resident cases reported to Yukon Communicable Disease Control. Does not include non-resident cases that were diagnosed in the Yukon.
Data will be impacted by clinical testing criteria and availability of testing.
Episode dates are based on either date of symptom onset, laboratory collection date, or date of report to public health, depending on availability of data.
Geographical region (rural, Whitehorse, etc.) is based on patient residence, not service delivery location.
Death rates are estimated from Yukon Communicable Disease Control investigations, and do not reflect finalized Vital Statistics Database data. As such, these rates may be subject to some variation.
Outbreaks are reported for institutional settings, including but not limited to hospitals, long term care, correctional facilities, and other congregate settings.