This week, 6,174 new cases of Covid-19 were reported in Switzerland, down 10% from the 6,845 recorded the week before.
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On a 7-day moving average basis, the number of daily new cases (882) is back down to where it was in early August 2021.
The number entering hospital with Covid-19 is also down. Over the last 7 days, 106 Covid-19 patients were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 compared to 143 during the prior 7 days.
Switzerland’s federal government is now focused on increasing the nation’s vaccination rate with a new campaign. Switzerland has become somewhat of a Covid-19 vaccination outlier in Europe with only 66% of the population at least partially vaccinated. After reaching a rate of 50% rapidly, the country has made slow progress since, rising only a further 16% over the last three and a half months – data here.
New Zealand, a nation criticised by some for starting its vaccination programme four months after vaccination leaders like Switzerland is now well ahead of Switzerland with 72% of its population jabbed at least once. Nations like Spain and Singapore have now managed rates of more than 80%. Portugal has reached 88%.
The unvaccinated continue to make up the vast majority of those hospitalised with Covid-19, despite making up a relatively and increasingly small percentage of those at risk of severe illness. Over the last 7 days, only 22 (23%) out of the 96 people hospitalised with Covid-19 in Switzerland were recorded as fully vaccinated.
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Swiss guy says
The vaccinated SPREAD the virus to unvaccinated. That’s why there was a SPIKE in the summer as coronaviruses do not go up in summer. TRAITOR GOVERNMENT.