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Federal Coronavirus Press Conference, 30.11.2021.
#CoronaInfoCH #Switzerland Read the new measures in this thread.

Sorry a bit late, but here is the thread about today's BAG press conference. #CoronaInfoCH #Omicron Regarding the first probable Omikron case in Switzerland: "Tomorrow we should know for sure whether the person concerned is actually infected with the new mutation or not", says the BAG.

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Swiss Coronavirus Press Conference: Task Force warns – possible collapse of the hospital capacity in December. #CoronaInfoCH The number of cases is in the same order of magnitude as Austria a few weeks ago. Whilst Austria is in total lockdown at the moment.

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Coronavirus press conference, 20.04.2021, Switzerland
#CoronaInfoCH #Coronavirus #Switzerland #Covid19 The number of infections is stagnating slightly. "It is noticeable that there has been massively less testing since Easter," says Mathys. The R value has recently decreased, but since it is still above 1 at 1.1, the number of infections can still be expected to rise.

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Coronavirus Press Conference with @alain_berset, 3.2.2021.
#CoronaInfoCH #Switzerland #Schweiz Swiss government has negotiated new vaccination contracts with 3 manufacturers for 17 million doses. Among others, new vaccines from Curevac, Novavax and other doses from Moderna have been added. #CoronaInfoCH

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Coronavirus Press Conference, 2.2.2021.
#Coronavirus #CoronaInfoCH #Covid19 #Switzerland #Schweiz BAG Director Anne Lévy: «For a few weeks now there has been a little hope. But the tendency that show a decrease of new infections is deceptive.» The BAG is worried that the British Covid variant could lead to a trend reversal.

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Very interesting article on «Long Covid» (milder cases with long term effects) and it's impact on public health and economy.
According to the British office for Statistics, every 10th case leads to long term symptoms.
#CoronaInfoCH #LongCovid nzz.ch/schweiz/volksk…

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Federal Coronavirus Press Conference 6.01.2021
#CoronaInfoCH #COVID19 #Schweiz #Switzerland Alain Berset: «The situation, we have to be honest, is not good. It's actually bad. The numbers are difficult to interpret because of the holiday season, but one thing is clear: they are still too high."

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BAG press conference on the #COVID19-situation in #Switzerland. 5.1.2021.
#CoronaInfoCH Virginie Masserey (BAG): 'Reproduction rate is 0.89. 428 people with Covid are in intensive care units, in four cantons the occupancy of the intensive care beds is over 80 percent.'

Today (19.12.2020) Alain Berset announced that Swissmedic has approved the vaccine for Switzerland. Read all relevant information from the BAG press conference in this thread.
#CoronaInfoCH #Switzerland #Vaccine #Pfizer #Impfung Raimund Bruhin, Director of Swissmedic: ‘It is a very safe vaccine. We reached a milestone today. Since spring, there has been an exchange with research groups. They have been able to evaluate documents ever since. The safety aspect nevertheless played a very important role.

🔴The Federal Council intervened today +++ Strict national wide measures in Switzerland to be applied from December 12 until January 20 +++ All explained in this thread 🔴
#CoronaInfoCH #Switzerland #COVID19 While many cantons introduced new measures this week, the Federal Council decided to intervene due to a fast rising infection rate. They held a meeting and a press conference this evening. #CoronaInfoCH

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School situation in Zurich. The situation in schools is currently tense, but stable, said an official. The main goal is that the children and young people can attend school and complete their semester and graduate regularly.

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New measures this week: The Federal Council held video conferences with Thurgau, St. Gallen, Solothurn, Ticino, Aargau and Basel-Land on Saturday, where he urged them for new measures this week. #CoronaInfoCH The council gave them a deadline of 7 days – if nothing happens, he will take new measures on a national level, according to this article: 20min.ch/story/ab-heute… #CoronaInfoCH

Everything you need to know about the new Germany-Switzerland regulation (Thread)

#CoronaInfoCH #Deutschland #Germany #Schweiz #Switzerland #BadenWuerttemberg #Covid_19 Germany decided to put Switzerland on their list of high risk countries. This generally means that when entering Germany from Switzerland, one has to either present a negative Covid-Test or go into a 14 days quarantine. #CoronaInfoCH