The latest on the corona pandemic – 7-day average falls by 24 percent – News

lied to parliament? Johnson threatens investigation in parliamentary committee

For the British Prime Minister, the affair over banned lockdown parties in the seat of government Downing Street is still tricky: On Thursday, the MPs in the House of Commons are to vote on whether Boris Johnson’s statements on the matter should be examined by a committee for their truthfulness. Parliament President Lindsay Hoyle approved a corresponding request from the opposition, as he announced in the House of Commons. Deliberate deception of Parliament is considered a clear reason for resignation.

Opposition politicians accuse Johnson of having lied to parliament and are therefore calling for his resignation. The Tory politician had initially completely ruled out breaches of the rule in the House of Commons and later claimed not to have noticed anything about it. It later emerged that he himself attended several of the meetings in question. His wife, Carrie Johnson, and Treasury Secretary Rishi Sunak also received penal orders.

Weekly update: BAG reports 28,244 new cases

• The Federal Office of Public Health has today 28,244 new cases reported who tested positive for the coronavirus in the last week.
• That’s it 7-day moving average at 4486. These are 24 percent less than in the previous week. The 14-day incidence is current 939.46.
• The BAG reports 344 new hospital admissionsthe 14-day average is included 59 hospital admissions per day. Get current 1153 people treated in a hospital for Covid-19. These are 15 percent less than in the previous week.
• Currently are 81 Covid-19 patients in intensive care. These are 9 percent less compared to the previous week. the intensive care beds in Swiss hospitals (including ad hoc beds) are currently closed 68 percent fully occupied. 10 percent of the intensive care beds are occupied by Covid 19 patients.
• The BAG reports 37 new deceased. The 7-day average is included 5 deceased.
• The positive rate in the 7-day average is currently 28.6 percent. This means that out of 100 tests, around 29 tests were positive on average. Compared to the previous week, the positive rate is over 3 percentage points dropped. The test volume in the 7-day average is included 18,783 tests per day and is thus over compared to the previous week 12 percent dropped.
• So far in Switzerland 15’734’558 vaccinations administered (including “booster” vaccinations). According to current calculations are average 915 people vaccinated per day. These are 44.8 percent less than in the previous week. Currently have with it 69.1 percent of the population received at least two doses (“fully vaccinated”). 42.8 percent of the population have already received a third dose (“booster”).

Moderna: Combined booster vaccine successful in study

The US pharmaceutical manufacturer Moderna has achieved promising results in a study with its further developed corona vaccine: The bivalent booster vaccine, which targets both the beta variant and the original corona virus, has a better immune response against a number of Virus variants including Omicron achieved, Moderna announced. The vaccine produced higher neutralizing antibody titers against the omicron variant than the booster dose of the vaccine currently in use.

Bivalent vaccines immunize against two pathogens or two types of pathogens. However, Moderna does not plan to apply directly for approval of the bivalent vaccine, including the beta variant, said Jacqueline Miller, a leading Moderna scientist. However, the data would be sent to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to lay the groundwork for a future bivalent vaccine candidate that targets the omicron variant.

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300 subjects took part in the study in the USA. Moderna has also started testing another bivalent vaccine that combines an omicron-specific vaccine with its original. The first data on this is to be published in the second quarter.

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Shanghai reports more deaths

In the corona wave in Shanghai, seven more deaths related to Covid 19 infections have been reported. According to state media, the authorities reported that there were patients between the ages of 60 and 101 with previous illnesses.

After being admitted to the hospital, her condition deteriorated significantly. The day before, the authorities had already reported that three older patients, also with previous illnesses, had died after being infected with the corona virus.

The eastern Chinese port metropolis is at the center of the largest corona outbreak in China since the pandemic began a good two years ago. There has been an extensive lockdown in Shanghai since the end of March. Most of the 26 million inhabitants are not allowed to leave their homes. Nevertheless, there are around 20,000 new infections every day, but mostly asymptomatic. As of this week, no deaths had been reported in Shanghai.

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China’s rigid corona strategy

Out of daily News from 05.04.2022.

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Cantons are preparing for autumn

The Conference of Cantonal Governments (KdK) is drawing lessons from the corona pandemic. At the operational level, a permanent, cross-departmental crisis management team is needed, in which the cantons are also represented, said KdK President Christian Rathgeb.

The cantons had spoken out against a more dominant role for the KdK. Rather, they wanted earlier, closer and, above all, direct involvement by the federal government, he said in an interview with the “Neue Zürcher Zeitung”.

Cooperation between the federal government and the cantons has improved over the course of the pandemic. The system emerged stronger from the crisis. The gear train has become more precise and faster.

The conference of health directors is working flat out on the preparations should the number of cases rise again in autumn. She’ll be making recommendations soon. It is important that the time until autumn is used.

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How well has Switzerland coped with the pandemic?

03:55 minutes, out of echo of time from 03/30/2022.

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