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Swiss health officials say new Covid-19 infections, hospital admissions and deaths are all expected to stabilise.

Die Fachexperten des Bundes haben über die aktuelle Corona-Lage in der Schweiz informiert. Im Ticker lesen Sie die wichtigsten Aussagen an der Medienkonferenz.

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South Africa registered 10,685 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the cumulative total to 2,624,254. A further 553 Covid-19-related deaths were reported, taking the total official deaths to 77,993. A total of 9,753,138 people have been vaccinated.

Covid-19 cases continue to rise in Switzerland, although hospital admissions and intensive care numbers are manageable, officials have said.

The coronavirus pandemic is subsiding, Swiss government experts say. Pregnant women in the second trimester may now get vaccinated against the virus.

Covid: new cases trend down with vaccine progress This week, saw 10,639 new Covid-19 cases in Switzerland, down 21% from a week before (13,465) continuing the slow down in growth of new numbers experienced last week (-5%). The 7-day average is currently 1,519. “We have good reasons to be optimistic,” said Patrick Mathys, head of the Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force at a press conference in Bern on Wednesday. According to Mathys, there is a good chance that this downward trend will...

‘Sewage doesn’t lie’ when tracking Covid-19 Wastewater samples must undergo an elaborate preparation process involving filtration, concentration and RNA extraction prior to detection. swissinfo.ch For over a year, scientists have been hunting for traces of Covid-19 in Swiss sewage, achieving several worldwide breakthroughs. But the project’s future is now in question. This content was published on May 5, 2021 - 09:00 May 5, 2021 - 09:00 Simon Bradley Born in London, Simon i...

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GENEVA: Switzerland’s Covid-19 death toll topped 10,000 on Wednesday as health officials gave cautious signs of optimism that the pandemic was coming under control in the wealthy Alpine nation. The landlocked European country, population 8.6 million, said 10,012 people had now died from the virus, while more than 664,000 cases have been registered. But the government’s