On Wednesday, 31,109 new coronavirus infections in 90,106 tests were reported to the Federal Office of Public Health in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. At the same time, the BAG registered 20 new deaths and 147 hospital admissions.
On the same day a week ago, the FOPH had received reports of 17,634 confirmed new infections, 156 hospital admissions and 25 deaths. This means that the number of cases has risen by 76.4 percent within a week. Hospital admissions decreased by 5.8 percent compared to the previous week.
There are currently 679 people in intensive care in the hospitals. Thus, the utilization of the intensive care units is currently 78.30 percent, and 35.30 percent of the available beds are occupied by Covid-19 patients.
For every 100,000 inhabitants, 2315.58 laboratory-confirmed coronavirus infections were reported in the past two weeks. The reproduction number R, which indicates the average number of people infected by an infected person, was 1.37 on December 24th.
67.33 percent of the population in Switzerland are now fully vaccinated. Another 1.64 percent received a first dose. Of the population aged 12 and over, 76.62 percent are vaccinated. In addition, 26.72 percent of the total population and 65.40 percent of those over 65 years of age received a so-called booster vaccination (booster vaccination).
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