COVID-19 IN SWITZERLAND. Week to 22.05.2021—down
May 26: next easing decision
Per 100K pop, total & last 2 weeks
● cases—7951 & 187 (dn)
● in hospital—329 & 5 (dn)
● deaths—118 & 0.7 (dn)
R(e): up—0.90
Vaccinations: 4.0m (1.4m 2nd doses)
FOPH covid19.admin.ch/en/overview?ov…
1/11
AND FOR THE PAST FORTNIGHT, R(e) since Sep28
covid19.admin.ch/en/overview
2/11
VIRUS VARIANTS detected
UK variant dominant. Indian starting to show
Public Health Office: covid19.admin.ch/en/epidemiolog…
Science Task Force: sciencetaskforce.ch/en/nextstrain-…
3/11
BY CANTON: LAB-CONFIRMED CASES IN the past fortnight per 100K population—down. Worst still in Uri, also Appenzell Innerrhoden. Dark end of scale down from 529 to 446.
More: covid19.admin.ch/en/epidemiolog…
4/11
BY CANTON: LAB-CONFIRMED HOSPITALISATION in the past fortnight per 100K population—Improving, down from 6.04 to 4.82. Worse in and around Uri, so dark end of scale up from 27 to 30
More: covid19.admin.ch/en/epidemiolog…
5/11
BY CANTON: DEATHS (which lag case numbers)—down from 0.9 to 0.7. Still worst in and around Uri. Elsewhere better. Dark end of scale stays at 5.45.
More: covid19.admin.ch/en/epidemiolog…
6/11
INTENSIVE CARE CAPACITY AND OCCUPANCY: all patients and COVID-19
Over 150 hospitals/clinics (Glarus, Appenzell Innerrhoden have no IC units)
All patients: Slightly worse, eg in West
COVID-19: improving, except Schaffhausen
More: covid19.admin.ch/en/hosp-capaci…
7/11
R(e) ESTIMATES: national over time, cantons latest.
Up slightly. Better in the Alpine cantons <0.8, >1 in Fribourg, Jura, Obwalden and NE
Estimate: 0.90 nationally (from 0.87)
More: covid19.admin.ch/en/repro/val
Note: Swiss schools have stayed open during lockdown
8/11
VACCINATIONS (1) VACCINES & DEMOGRAPHY
Pfizer/BioNTech & Moderna roughly equal
Ordered: 36m doses: Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Curevac and Novavax (pop 8.6m)
Approved: Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, J&J (not ordered)
covid19.admin.ch/en/epidemiolog…
covid19.admin.ch/en/epidemiolog…
9/11
VACCINATIONS (2) OVERALL
Clearly accelerating
Delivered: 4.7m=54% (from 3.9m/45%)
Administered: 3.9m=46% (from 3.5m/41%) (2 doses for whole population = 200%)
Fully (2 doses): 1.4m=14.3% (from 1.2m/13.7%)
covid19.admin.ch/en/epidemiolog…
covid19.admin.ch/en/epidemiolog…
10/11
LATEST: Decision May 26 on next phase, includes restaurants open indoors
Some cantons now vaccinating all adults (some over-16s)
A forgery-proof Covid-19 certificate available by the end of June
CURRENT SITUATION: swissinfo.ch/eng/covid-19_c…
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