Table 2.

Summary of deceased infants by RSV PCR test status, year, setting, and age category

	Infants brought in dead		Early facility deaths		Late facility deaths		Facility deaths, timing unknown		All infants
	Number tested	Number RSV-positive	Number tested	Number RSV-positive	Number tested	Number RSV-positive	Number tested	Number RSV-positive	Number tested	Number RSV-positive
August to December, 2017
Age 4 days to <3 months	49	0	16	0	64	0	0	0	129	0
Age 3 months to <6 months	22	0	7	0	7	0	1	0	37	0
All ages	71	0	23	0	71	0	1	0	166	0
January to December, 2018
Age 4 days to <3 months	308	26 (8%)	54	2 (4%)	159	7 (4%)	82	4 (5%)	603	39 (6%)
Age 3 months to <6 months	159	14 (9%)	12	0	21	1 (5%)	24	8 (33%)	216	23 (11%)
All ages	467	40 (9%)	66	2 (3%)	180	8 (4%)	106	12 (11%)	819	62 (8%)
January to December, 2019
Age 4 days to <3 months	314	44 (14%)	90	5 (6%)	289	20 (7%)	10	1 (10%)	703	70 (10%)
Age 3 months to <6 months	138	8 (6%)	21	3 (14%)	26	6 (23%)	7	1 (14%)	192	18 (9%)
All ages	452	52 (12%)	111	8 (7%)	315	26 (8%)	17	2 (12%)	895	88 (10%)
January to August, 2020*
Age 4 days to <3 months	125	5 (4%)	32	0	160	2 (1%)	10	0	327	7 (2%)
Age 3 months to <6 months	61	5 (8%)	4	0	11	0	3	0	79	5 (6%)
All ages	186	10 (5%)	36	0	171	2 (1%)	13	0	406	12 (3%)
All years
Age 4 days to <3 months	796	75 (9%)	192	7 (4%)	672	29 (4%)	102	5 (5%)	1762	116 (7%)
Age 3 months to <6 months	380	27 (7%)	44	3 (7%)	65	7 (11%)	35	9 (26%)	524	46 (9%)
All ages	1176	102 (9%)	236	10 (4%)	737	36 (5%)	137	14 (10%)	2286	162 (7%)

RSV=respiratory syncytial virus.

^*Missing April and May, 2020, because of COVID-19 shutdown in Lusaka.