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Scientists fear coronavirus restrictions are being lifted too quickly A worker serves a customer at a coffee shop in Naples, Italy, as the town is downgraded from a red to an orange zone. Reuters A woman wearing a protective face mask reads a book in Carignano square, Turin, Italy. EPA Two Air Force doctors prepare doses of vaccine at the new vaccination center set up at the Command of the 1st Air Region of the Italian Air Force in Milan, Italy. EPA People take part in a protest against vaccines next to the Chamber of Deputies in piazza Montecitorio, in Rome, Italy. EPA

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Covid: cases up slightly again in Switzerland this week as vaccinations slowly proceed Over the seven days to 5 March 2021, Switzerland reported 7,358 new positive Covid-19 cases, 2.8% more than the week before, when cases rose by 1.5%. © Yulan | Dreamstime.com However, the Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force remains concerned. Case numbers can quickly rise, as they did in early October 2020. On 12 October 2020, there were around 1,200 new cases a day. Within a few weeks this increased 6-fold. Vaccines and higher levels of natural immunity help. But according to Corona Immuntias, a n...

Covid: cases up slightly in Switzerland as reproduction rate goes above 1 Over the seven days to 26 February 2021, Switzerland reported 7,157 new positive Covid-19 cases, 1.5% more than the week before, ending an unbroken downward trend since early January 2021. © Jan Gajdosik | Dreamstime.com The Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force remains concerned about the emergence of faster spreading strains. Currently 58% of infections are with potentially more problematic variants, up from 51% a week ago. Latest test positivity was 4%. In addition, the reproduction rate reported this week b...

Covid: Swiss government presents plan to reopen On 17 February 2021, Switzerland’s Federal Council presented its plan to start reopening from 1 March 2021. © Hai Huy Ton That | Dreamstime.com With the number of new infections declining over recent weeks, political pressure has been growing for a return towards normality. A petition opposed to anti-Covid restrictions has now been signed by more than 250,000 people. At its meeting on 17 February, the Federal Council said that it proposes a cautious, gradual easing of measures to allow society to start to reopen and economic activity to resum...