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In addition to those infected in the canton’s population, the Basel health department registered 8 new infections on Friday in people who did not live outside of Switzerland. The number of people in quarantine fell slightly from 15 to 2,228 cases on Friday.
Due to a Covid-19 disease in hospital care there were 29 residents of the canton and 18 foreigners on Friday. 13 of them required intensive care.
The number of deaths remained at 54. However, positive cases were again recorded in nursing homes. Eight residents of two homes were affected.
Infections especially in private
In the period from October 2 to 29, only one source of infection could be identified in 27 percent of cases. Most people would have been infected in their family, in their free time or at work.
With around 3,000 people in isolation and quarantine, contact tracing in the canton has reached its limits, as the health department writes in its Friday bulletin on crown case numbers. The contact tracking team currently prioritizes contacting the newly infected the same day.
New high in the Basel area
The canton of Baselland recorded 120 new infections with the corona virus on Friday. The number of active cases increased from 47 to 996, that is, two and a half times more than at the peak of the first wave.
The total number of corona positive cases recorded so far amounted to 2,646, thus Crown-Canton’s statistics can be found. There were 978 people in quarantine on Friday, 71 more than the day before. The increase only affected the contact persons of infected people.
The number of people hospitalized for Covid-19 increased from 1 to 30. 4 people were in the intensive care unit and had to be ventilated.
