COVID-19 IN SWITZERLAND 🇨🇭. Week to 24.07.2021—rising, delta variant now 94%
Per 100K pop, total & last 2 weeks
● cases—8244 & 87 (↗️)
● in hospital—339 & 0.9 (↗️)
● deaths—120 & 0.07 (↗️)
R(e): ↘️—1.31
Vaccinations: 4.0m (46%) fully
FOPH covid19.admin.ch/en/overview?ov…
1/12
AND FOR THE PAST FORTNIGHT, R(e) since Sep28
covid19.admin.ch/en/overview
The previous tweet shows that case numbers, hospitalisations and deaths are rising again.
(Delta variant is totally dominant; vaccinations decelerating)
These are for the last fortnight:
2/12
CERTIFICATES ISSUED
The Swiss certificate is now “interoperable” with the EU and EFTA certificates—QR code recognised
• Vaccinated people—4.7m
• Recovered people—112K
• Negatively tested people—827K
covid19.admin.ch/en/overview?ov… (graph is last 28 days)
3/12
VIRUS VARIANTS detected
Delta (B.1.617) variant rising sharply, causing concern:
• 94.1% from 77.6% (FOPH)
• 96.4% from 82% (Task Force data)
Public Health Office: covid19.admin.ch/en/epidemiolog…
Science Task Force: sciencetaskforce.ch/en/nextstrain-…
4/12
BY CANTON: LAB-CONFIRMED CASES in the past fortnight per 100K population—Overall ↗️ from 53 to 87. Worst in Geneva pushing dark end of range ↗️ from 112 to 233
More: covid19.admin.ch/en/epidemiolog…
5/12
BY CANTON: LAB-CONFIRMED HOSPITALISATION in the past 14 days per 100K population—patchy, overall ↗️ from 0.43 to 0.94. Several cantons still zero. Worst in central cantons (Lucerne, Obwalden) pushing dark end of range ↗️ from 2.6 to 3.6
More: covid19.admin.ch/en/epidemiolog…
6/12
BY CANTON: DEATHS (which lag case numbers)—up from 0.05 to 0.07. Still mainly zero. Bern and Basel City join cantons with deaths. But dark end of range ↘️ from 6.2 to 0.51
More: covid19.admin.ch/en/epidemiolog…
7/12
INTENSIVE CARE CAPACITY AND OCCUPANCY: all patients and COVID-19
Over 150 hospitals/clinics (Glarus, Appenzell Innerrhoden have no IC units)
All patients: slightly up
COVID-19 patients: low, slightly up
More: covid19.admin.ch/en/hosp-capaci…
8/12
R(e) ESTIMATES: national over time, cantons latest.
Down from peak but still > 1 almost everywhere. Jura, Liechtenstein exceptionally <0.8
Estimate: 1.31 nationally (from 1.44).
More: covid19.admin.ch/en/repro/val
9/12
VACCINATIONS (1) VACCINES & DEMOGRAPHY
Slowing. < 19s vaccinated
Moderna majority
Ordered: 36m doses: Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, AZ, Curevac and Novavax (pop 8.6m)
Approved: Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, J&J (not ordered)
covid19.admin.ch/en/epidemiolog…
covid19.admin.ch/en/epidemiolog…
10/12
VACCINATIONS (2) OVERALL
Slowing. 46% fully vaccinated
DOSES
Delivered: 8.6m=100% (from 8.4m/98%)
Administered: 8.7m=101% (from 8.4m/97%)
PEOPLE:
Fully (2 doses): 3.9m=46% (from 3.7m/43%)
At least 1 dose = 53%
covid19.admin.ch/en/epidemiolog…
covid19.admin.ch/en/epidemiolog…
11/12
LATEST: New phase started June 26
Numbers rising, delta causing concern
Still some controls eg masks indoors, indoor distancing in restaurants, travel, COVID-19 certificate needed for some events
DETAILS: bag.admin.ch/bag/en/home/kr…
SWISS INFO: swissinfo.ch/eng/covid-19_c…
12/12
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