More than 11,000 candles — one for each Swiss victim of the coronavirus pandemic — lit up the December darkness outside the Swiss parliament in Bern.
"We want to create a space to remember and mourn the victims," Simon Gehren of the "Corona-Mahnwache" (corona vigil) movement told Reuters.
Around 40 volunteers helped light the candles arranged geometrically on the square that is Switzerland's political centre. The group organised a similar event last year.
Gehren said the vigil was also an appeal to the government to take firmer action to contain soaring infection numbers.
