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Coronavirus15 dead in one week in Switzerland, just over 20,000 cases
There have been some 2,970 cases and 42 hospitalizations per day during the past week. The situation is stable.
Geneva has the highest incidence in French-speaking Switzerland, with 419 cases per 100,000 inhabitants over the past 14 days. Swiss average: 457.
FOPH
20,779 additional cases, 293 hospitalizations and fifteen new deaths recorded in Switzerland and Liechtenstein: this is the assessment of the pandemic, according to data from the Federal Office of Public Health (OFSP) communicated on Tuesday.
According to these weekly figures, there were therefore some 2,970 cases and 42 hospitalizations per day during the past week. Last week, the data was similar, with around 2,990 cases and 41 hospitalizations per day.
In the last seven days, 69,805 tests have been carried out. The PCR test positivity rate is 31.3% (39% for rapid antigen tests). The intensive care unit occupancy rate is 72.5%: 4.9% Covid patients and 67.6% non-Covid.
In total, since the start of the pandemic, Switzerland has counted 13,778 deaths, 61,327 hospitalizations and 4,297,626 people who tested positive for the coronavirus.
With 457 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (489 last Tuesday), the fourteen-day incidence rate in Switzerland is lower than that of all its neighbors, according to WHO figures: Italy (462), France (469), Germany (508) and Austria (614).
69.7% of the population received at least one dose of vaccine and 9.9% had a dose in the last six months.
(R.M.)