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122 people have been hospitalized in the past 24 hours. The reproduction rate (R) is 1.37.
Valais has the highest incidence in French-speaking Switzerland with 6,024.05 cases per 100,000 inhabitants over the last 14 days. Swiss average: 3,592.52.
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29,887 new people tested positive, 122 additional hospitalizations and 18 new deaths recorded in Switzerland and Liechtenstein: such is the report on the pandemic communicated today by the Federal Office of Public Health (OFSP). Except for deaths (there were 10 last Thursday), there is a decrease compared to a week ago, when there were 32’239 cases and 137 hospitalizations. In the last 24 hours, 95,462 tests have been performed (almost like last Thursday) and the positive rate for PCR tests is 37.5% (26.6% for rapid antigenic tests).
The intensive care unit occupancy rate is 76.3%: 29.7% of Covid patients and 46.6% of non-Covid patients. There are also nearly 220,000 people deprived of contact, 162,739 in isolation and 57,217 in quarantine.
There are now 3,593 cases per 100,000 inhabitants over the last fourteen days. As for the reproduction rate (R) posted today by the FOPH, it is 1.37. In French-speaking Switzerland, it is 1.48 in Geneva, 1.52 in the Jura, 1.54 in the canton of Vaud, 1.56 in Valais, 1.59 in Neuchâtel and Friborg.
In total, since the start of the pandemic, Switzerland has now counted 12,104 deaths, 41,031 hospitalizations as well as 1,634,229 people tested positive for the coronavirus.
With 3,593 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (2,559 last Thursday), the incidence rate over fourteen days in Switzerland is higher than that of most of our neighbors, according to WHO figures: Germany (716), Austria ( 1063) and Italy (3384). The incidence is however higher in France: 4,823.
Switzerland now has 67.72% of its population fully vaccinated (77.05% if only those over 12 are counted) and 1.6% partially. In the French-speaking cantons, it is 70.34% of people fully vaccinated (2.96% partially) in Neuchâtel, 69.22% (1.1%) in the canton of Vaud, 68.47% (1.1 %) in Friborg, 68.22% (1.95%) in Geneva, 64.64% (4.4%) in Valais and 62.98% (3.6%) in Jura.
32.28% of the population received a booster dose. This proportion is 69.53% among those 65 and over.