The peak of Switzerland’s coronavirus epidemic could stretch into later this spring or summer, the head of the Swiss government’s communicable diseases division has said, as the country’s death toll continued to rise.

The number of dead rose to 373, the country’s public health agency said, up from 295 people on Monday. The number of positive cases increased to 16,176 from 15,575, it said.

Daniel Koch, who has spearheaded the government’s response to the outbreak, said epidemics usually had periods where the numbers of infections rose before they subsided.

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