Coronavirus – Switzerland – In Switzerland and Liechtenstein, 1858 new coronavirus infections were reported to the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) within 24 hours on Wednesday. At the same time, the BAG registered 16 new deaths and 72 hospital admissions.
The positivity rate for the past two weeks was 5.0 percent. In the same period, 193.92 laboratory-confirmed coronavirus infections were reported per 100,000 inhabitants. The reproduction number R, which indicates how many people an infected person infects on average, was 1.14 around ten days ago.
So far, 17,003 cases of the mutated variants of the coronavirus have been discovered in Switzerland. 5037 related to the British variant (B.1.1.7), 186 to the South African (B.1.351) and seven to the Brazilian (P.1). 11,773 cases could not be clearly assigned to any variant.
A total of 1,298,250 vaccine doses had been delivered to the cantons and Liechtenstein by the evening before yesterday. Of these, 1,101,753 doses were administered. 394,926 people are already fully vaccinated.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 5,524,301 tests have been carried out in Switzerland and Liechtenstein for Sars-CoV-2, the causative agent of the respiratory disease Covid-19, according to the FOPH. There were a total of 577,111 laboratory-confirmed cases of infection with the coronavirus.
So far, 24,289 people have had to be treated in hospital for a Covid 19 disease. The number of deaths in connection with Covid 19 disease was 9,469. According to the BAG, 11,474 people were in isolation and 20,142 people were in quarantine due to contact tracing. In addition, 3725 people who had returned from a risk country were in quarantine.
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