“If the vaccination rate does not increase rapidly, only severe restrictive measures can prevent the worst from occurring,” he said. Reddy said he expects new Covid cases to rise further in Switzerland this autumn. In an interview this week, Tanja Stadler, the new head of Switzerland’s Covid-19 science taskforce, said the current virus situation was “very difficult”. The growth in new cases is largely due to the highly infectious Delta variant affecting unvaccinated people, mainly in the 10-to-29-year-old age group. This content was published on Aug 18, 2021Rising Covid-19 cases, more hospital admissions and a flagging vaccination campaign: Tanja Stadler has her work cut out. New head of Swiss Covid-19 taskforce: ‘We’re in a very difficult situation’
Just over 50% of the population are vaccinated against the virus. Hospital admissions are also increasing, but the death rate remains low. Since the end of June, the number of new reported coronavirus infections has been rising in Switzerland. Covid-22 could be even worse than what we are experiencing now." Rising cases “This would become the big problem of the coming year. “If Beta or Gamma becomes more contagious, or if Delta develops mutations, then we could be talking about a new phase of the pandemic," said Reddy. Delta, on the other hand, is much more contagious, but has not yet developed such mutations. He pointed to coronavirus variants from South Africa (Beta) and Brazil (Gamma) that have mutated, allowing them to partially evade antibodies. “That's why we have to prepare for several vaccinations over the next few years, which will be continuously adapted to new variants,” the 40-year-old scientist told the paper. Such a new variant would definitely reach Switzerland, said Reddy, who works as an associate professor at the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering of the federal technology institute ETH Zurich in Basel. “It is very likely that a new variant will emerge and that we will no longer be able to rely on vaccinations alone,” immunologist Sai Reddy told the SonntagsBlick newspaper. Español (es) Científico suizo advierte sobre posible “supercepa” de COVID.
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