By Reuters Staff
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ZURICH (Reuters) - The directors of five of Switzerland’s largest hospitals have written to the health minister asking for urgent measures to reduce coronavirus infections, the SonntagsZeitung newspaper reported on Sunday.
FILE PHOTO: Civil protection agents Karim Melliti and Mehdi Ben Khaelifa perform an antigenic rapid test at the screening center of La Tour Hospital as Swiss civil protection agents are deployed to help during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Meyrin near Geneva, Switzerland, November 26, 2020. Picture taken November 26, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo
In their letter to Health Minister Alain Berset, the directors of the university hospitals of Zurich, Bern, Basel, Lausanne and Geneva said the pandemic was forcing them to postpone operations for patients with other life-threatening conditions while intensive care beds were becoming scarce.
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