Covered restaurant terraces in Neuchâtel: More than 10,000 people are currently in quarantine in Switzerland
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The number of new daily coronavirus infections in Switzerland rose to 2,823 on Wednesday, double the figure reported on Tuesday, according to the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH). This is the highest since the beginning of the pandemic.
Eight deaths and 57 hospital admissions were also registered.
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic there have been a total of 68,704 laboratory-confirmed cases of coronavirus infection, the FOPH saidExternal link on Wednesday. A total of 5,167 people have been treated in hospital for Covid-19. The total number of deaths associated with Covid-19 disease has risen to 1,816.
In Switzerland and Liechtenstein a total of 1,536,725 tests for Sars-CoV-2, the pathogen of the respiratory disease Covid-19, have been carried out. Over the past two weeks, 9.9% of all tests have been positive.
The FOPH said 5,250 people were in isolation and 11,093 people were in quarantine on Wednesday due to contact tracing. In addition, 14,664 returnees from risk countries were in quarantine.
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