New figures on infection sites: contact tracing works much worse than expected



[ad_1]

In nearly 90 percent of corona cases, the site of infection is unknown, as an internal federal administration document shows.

Not good news for Federal Councilor Alain Berset and BAG Chief Anne Levy: Contact tracing works even worse than previously assumed.  Here you visit the Zug canton contact center.

Not good news for Federal Councilor Alain Berset and BAG chief Anne Levy: Contact tracing works even worse than previously assumed. Here you visit the Zug canton contact center.

Photo: Peter Klaunzer (Keystone)

Contact tracing has been a difficult business for months, and all too often the search for leads is unsuccessful. Now it becomes clear that the difficulties are much greater than previously assumed. In 87 percent of cases, the subjective site of infection is unknown. This stems from an internal document of the federal administration, which is available to SonntagsZeitung.

The document is an analysis of contact tracing, which is based on data from the Federal Office of Public Health (BAG). More than 100,000 corona infections were evaluated in the period from January 2020 to the end of January 2021 in six cantons: Aargau, Basel-Land, Basel-Stadt, Freiburg, Graubünden and Neuchâtel.

To read this article in its entirety, you need a subscription.

[ad_2]