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CDC BROCHURE
The Federal Office of Public Health (BAG) reported on its website Sunday that the R-value in Vaud on December 19 was 1.07, in Valais 1.15, Neuchâtel 1.11 and Nidwalden. 1.07, in Uri 1.12, in Appenzell Innerrhoden 1.21 and in Ticino 1.02.
This means that shortly before Christmas the disease continued to spread in these cantons and the number of infected increased. To slow the spread of the virus, the number of breeders should be significantly less than 1.
Across Switzerland, the R value according to BAG fell below 1 on December 5. By December 16, it had dropped to 0.91. After that, the number of views went up again, reaching 0.96 on December 23.
Due to the time interval between infection and a positive test result, the R-value represents the infection rate in Switzerland for about ten days. For the cantons, the delay is about 14 days.
Epidemiologists fear that the number of reproductions will continue to rise during the holidays. The federal scientific working group, which calculates the R-value in conjunction with ETH, notes on its website that the value may be underestimated during the holidays because less testing was done during this time.
For example, the canton of Bern reported “only” 181 new positive coronavirus tests on Berchtold Day. At the same time, between the morning of New Years and the morning of January 2, only 1,062 tests were conducted. In the previous 24 hours there had been 3,600.
Also in Basel-Stadt, the number of new infections recorded on Saturday fell by one day from 53 to 21. In the canton of Baselland, 71 new infections were recorded on New Year’s Day, compared to 63 the day before.
At the same time, the sixth confirmed case of a British coronavirus mutation in Switzerland was confirmed in the canton of Bern on Saturday night. He is a nine-year-old student from London, as announced by the Bern health directorate.
