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The official number of reported Covid tests in Switzerland has fallen from a peak of 100,000 a day at the height of the pandemic to around 8,000-13,000 daily tests. Keystone / Martial Trezzini
Covid tests will no longer be reimbursed by the Swiss federal authorities for people with symptoms from January 1, 2023. This is misguided, sending the“wrong signal” this winter, says a top medical official.
This content was published on December 10, 2022 - 12:17 December 10, 2022 - 12:17 RTS/Tages-Anzeiger/sb A new wave of coronavirus infections and hospital admissions emerged in Switzerland in September; numbers have since stabilised at a high level. A total of 18,588 new Covid cases were reported on December 6 for the previous seven-day period, down 2.5% on the previous week. Health officials nonetheless say there are a high number of unreported new infections.
The number of reported Covid tests has fallen from a peak of 100,000 a day at the height of the pandemic to around 8,000-13,000 daily tests.
On Thursday, the House of Representatives followed the Senate in agreeing to end free Covid tests from January 2023 instead of the original plan of mid-2024. The Senate had pushed for an early end after high test costs for the authorities: CHF2 billion in 2021 and CHF1.6 billion for the current year. Since the end of Covid restrictions in Switzerland and the obligation to isolate, the costly test regime has made no sense, argued a majority of parliamentarians.
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