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151 people have been hospitalized in the past 24 hours. The reproduction rate (R) is 1.17.
32,150 new people tested positive, 151 hospitalizations and 20 deaths were recorded in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, according to the report released today by the Federal Office of Public Health (OFSP) on the pandemic. This is significantly more than last Friday when there were 28,038 cases, 126 hospitalizations and ten deaths. In the last 24 hours, 108,771 tests have been performed and the PCR test positive rate is 37.5% (27.1% for rapid antigenic tests).
The intensive care unit occupancy rate is 76.7%: 29.7% of Covid patients and 47% of non-Covid. There are also more than 210,000 people deprived of contact, 161,060 in isolation and 49,762 in quarantine.
There are now 3,734 cases per 100,000 inhabitants over the last fourteen days. As for the reproduction rate (R) posted today by the FOPH, it is 1.17. In French-speaking Switzerland, it is 1.03 in Jura, 1.16 in Valais, 1.19 in Friborg, 1.21 in the canton of Vaud, 1.22 in Geneva, and 1.27 in Neuchâtel.
In total, since the start of the pandemic, Switzerland has now counted 12,125 deaths, 41,236 hospitalizations as well as 1,666,355 people tested positive for the coronavirus.
With 3,734 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (2,571 last Friday), the fourteen-day incidence rate in Switzerland is higher than that of most of our neighbors, according to WHO figures: Germany (762), Austria (1219 ) and Italy (3549). The incidence is however higher in France: 5051.
Switzerland now has 67.77% of its population fully vaccinated (77.11% if only those over 12 are counted) and 1.6% partially. In the French-speaking cantons, it is 70.38% of people fully vaccinated (2.95% partially) in Neuchâtel, 69.26% (1.1%) in the canton of Vaud, 68.52% (1.1 %) in Friborg, 68.25% (1.96%) in Geneva, 64.68% (4.4%) in Valais and 62.99% (3.6%) in Jura.
33.04% of the population received a booster dose. This proportion is 69.99% among people 65 and over.