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The new corona figures from the Federal Office of Public Health (BAG) on Friday are like an explosion: 52 additional corona deaths were known in 24 hours. The number of fatal cases has thus exceeded the limit of 2000; now a total of 2037 are known.
As the BAG statistics show, the deceased infected people were mostly 80 years or older. 1421 cases belong to this age category. 405 corona deaths affected people between the ages of 70 and 79. An infection with the corona virus also had a fatal outcome for 147 people between the ages of 60 and 69.
Younger people also affected
The disease also had fatal consequences for the youngest: the FOPH documents 48 cases in which the deceased were between 50 and 59 years old. The age groups of 40 to 49 years and 30 to 39 years are represented in the statistics with six cases each.
So far, no fatal disease has occurred in people between the ages of 10 and 29 in Switzerland. On the other hand, a case is documented in the category up to nine years. It is about a baby who died in May in the children’s hospital in Zurich. He had been infected with the coronavirus in Macedonia and died of a serious neurological disease, according to the children’s hospital. To what extent the coronavirus was responsible for this was unclear at the time.
Increased number of new infections Thursday
The number of corona infections reported in Switzerland and Liechtenstein since the beginning of the epidemic is now 154,251. The number of 9,207 new infections reported on Friday is only slightly below the all-time high set Thursday, when 9,386 new cases were recorded.
The number of hospitalizations is still very high. 279 hospitalizations were reported on Friday, 287 on Thursday, the situation is tense in many hospitals. “Without further measures it is enough for acute beds for 15 days, for intensive care units for ten,” warned Andreas Stettbacher (58) of the federal government’s coordinated medical service (KSD) on Tuesday.
As of Friday, 732 beds out of 1095 intensive care beds in Switzerland were occupied, 363 are still free. The situation is particularly dramatic in the canton of Solothurn, where intensive care units are already overcrowded.
