Switzerland’s move to allow large public events with 10,000-plus people from June 26 comes as government data appears to show vaccines are helping control new infections that are mostly hitting people who remain unprotected, according to Reuters.
Only 209 of 180,000 new infections recorded in Switzerland between Jan 27 and June 21 were in people fully vaccinated with shots from Moderna or Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech, reveals data of the Swiss Federal Health Ministry.
In Switzerland, 2.6 million of its 8.6m population have received two doses of mRNA vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer, the only two available in the country. Another 1.5m people have received a single shot and are awaiting a booster.
