(MENAFN- Swissinfo) The falling numbers of Covid-19 infections and deaths is giving some grounds for optimism in Switzerland, but health officials warn that people cannot afford to relax with variant strains in the country.
This content was published on January 26, 2021 - 15:41 January 26, 2021 - 15:41 swissinfo.ch/mga
The number of infections has been gradually yet steadily dropping since the turn of the year. On Tuesday, 1,884 new cases were registered from the previous 24 hours. 'We're heading in the right direction, but unfortunately not quite at the pace we would like,' Patrick Mathys, head of crisis management at the Federal Office of Public Health, told a press conference on Tuesday. 'It is therefore very important that we all continue to comply with restrictions.'
On January 15, lockdown measures were tightened with non-essential shops being told to close and workers being required to work from home whenever possible. Mathys said Switzerland could not afford to 'sit back and relax' given the continued burden on hospitals and the growing number of variant strain cases (1,126 so far).
Nearly 200,000 Swiss people have been vaccinated against Covid-19 according to the health authorities. So far some 535,115 doses of vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna have been delivered in Switzerland, of which 197,368 had been injected by the morning of January 26. The rate of doses administered per 100 inhabitants in Switzerland is 2.29.
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