The figures are hardly decreasing anymore: the effect of the corona measures has already disappeared



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Switzerland is no longer on the right track. The goal of halving the number of corona cases every two weeks is a long way off. German-speaking Switzerland is to blame.

In German-speaking Switzerland, the effect of the measures taken by the Federal Council at the end of October appears to have faded again. The number of cases They are hardly falling any more, in some cantons they are even rising again. The unpleasant development is also reflected in the reproductive value (R value), which indicates how many people infects on average a person infected with Covid-19.

For the number of cases to decrease rapidly and significantly, this value must be 0.8 or less. Last week, this value fell below 0.8 in the second wave for the first time, as ETH researcher Tanja Stadler discovered in her analysis. However, this meant that Switzerland was only briefly on the reduction course envisioned by the Federal Council’s Corona working group, which intends to cut the number of cases in half every two weeks.

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