The latest update on the spread of the coronavirus in Switzerland was published this afternoon.
By 20 March 2020, the recoded number of Covid-19 infections in Switzerland had risen to 4,840, a number sure to be far below the real number of infections.
The numbers of deaths (43) and recoveries (15) are low, reflecting Switzerland’s early point in the development of the outbreak. At 74% (43/(15+43)), the death rate among those reaching an outcome is alarmingly high. In Italy, this rate is currently 43%. In China it is now 4.4%. Hopefully in time this rate will decline in Switzerland.
The worst hit canton is the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino. There, the rate of infection is 231 per 100,000. Vaud (148) and Basel-City (145) have the next highest concentrations of Covid-19 infection. Geneva (70), Zurich (36) and Bern (25) have far fewer cases per 100,000 residents.
The average across Switzerland was 56 infections per 100,000.
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N says
In-fact the rate of infection in Switzerland is likely far higher but remains un-tested and un-known.
N says
Italy and china have lower death rate compared to swiss because they had a wider testing range! – swiss only tested above 65 chronically ill patients.
This skews results.