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The person who tested positive for the South African mutation in Ticino is in isolation, as announced by the cantonal health department on Friday, January 1. He traveled to Ticino from South Africa and is still there. She had tested positive before Christmas.
The South African variant of the virus has been officially confirmed for the third time in Switzerland. The BAG reported two confirmed cases on Tuesday. There were five confirmed cases of the mutation that appeared in Great Britain in Switzerland in late December.
It was also announced on Friday that a child and a young adult had died in connection with a coronavirus infection. The child lived in the canton of St. Gallen, the adult in the canton of Zurich.
The Federal Office of Public Health (BAG) confirmed a report from the online portal 20min.ch on Friday. The child belonged to the category of children under 9 years of age, the adult to that of 20 to 29 years.
Confusion about fatalities in the canton of Zurich
After a spokesman for the canton of Zurich dismissed the online portal that the elderly person had died from Covid-19, the BAG joined the discussion. In a press release, media spokeswoman Katrin Holenstein stated that the BAG statistics are not statistics on causes of death. BAG does not know the exact cause of death.
In the report form to the FOPH for clinical findings, it is only stated that he was a Covid patient. The Federal Statistical Office (FSO) records the exact cause of death with a slight delay. Analyze the information on the deceased’s death certificates. Only from the FSO’s cause of death statistics can it be seen “if people died from or with Covid-19”.
This means that at least two people under the age of 29 have surely died in Switzerland in connection with a coronavirus infection. At the end of May, the BAG reported the death of a child from the canton of Aargau.
