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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…