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Eight cases of coronavirus in Switzerland, including two patients in French-speaking Switzerland
Seven new cases of coronavirus were confirmed Thursday in Switzerland. After Ticino on Tuesday, the cantons of Geneva, Vaud, Graub?nden, Aargau, Zurich and Basel announced a total of 7 new Covid-19 patients.
The state of health of the patients is considered good. There is no sign of the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) currently in Switzerland, recalled at a press conference Virginie Masserey, head of the infection control section of the Office Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH).
But given the increase in the number of confirmed cases worldwide, especially in northern Italy, it is likely that other cases will be diagnosed in Switzerland, warned the office. "We will have to learn to live with the virus that will not disappear from the world," said Daniel Koch, head of the communicable diseases division of the FOPH.
The latest cases reported in the cantons of Zurich and Aargau involve a 26-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman. They both recently stayed in northern Italy and are hospitalized. Italy is increasingly seen as a platform for disseminating Covid-19.
In Basel-City, it is a woman who works in a daycare center. She was placed in isolation at the University Hospital Basel. One hundred children are normally taken care of in the daycare. Due to the holidays, only a few were in contact with the infected person.
Two cases in French-speaking Switzerland
The first case of coronavirus identified in Geneva is a 28-year-old computer scientist also returning from Italy and who works at the administrative headquarters of the public institution of home support (imad) in Carouge. With mild symptoms, he was admitted to the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) and placed in solitary confinement.
People who had been in contact with him for the last two days before the onset of symptoms, or around twenty in his professional and private circle, were placed in preventive quarantine at their home for 14 days, the time of incubation.
A case has also been confirmed in the canton of Vaud. He is a 49-year-old French cross-border worker who works on Vaud soil and who has been detected there, according to a press release from the cantonal police. Contacted, the latter did not want to specify if the forties was hospitalized in a hospital in the region. He was immediately isolated and his condition is not cause for concern.
The case of his wife, also a worker in the canton, is highly suspect, indicate the police who will give more information on these two cases Friday at 11:30 am. In the case of a border case, the cantonal authorities actively collaborate with the French health authorities, as well as the FOPH.
In the canton of Neuch?tel, the tests of four people, including three children, came back negative. The isolation measures have been lifted. As a precaution, around twenty children and staff from a Corcelles cr?che had also been quarantined: it was lifted.
The cantonal official recalls that in the current state - the first phase, an epidemic wave - the objective is "to try to make a containment, that is to say to delay the progression of the disease". But if the number of situations becomes too large, emphasizes Jacques-Andr? Roman, "this strategy would be abandoned by the Federal Office of Public Health in favor of more targeted care by trying to isolate people who suffer from others' coronavirus, to be able to avoid cross-transmission. "
The Geneva cantonal doctor reminds, however, that currently, "in the vast majority of cases are progressing favorably and it is on the part of sick people that we must manage to concentrate care." The health authorities, who were not surprised by this first case, are now waiting for others. "We have to be realistic, we have several trains a day with France and Italy, the city of Geneva is an international city, so we were not surprised to have a first clinical situation."
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