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Coronavirus: Swiss hospitals face collapse in 10 days if virus keeps spreading

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ZURICH (REUTERS) - Switzerland's health-care system could collapse by the end of the month if the new coronavirus keeps spreading at current rates, a government official warned on Tuesday (March 17).. Read more at straitstimes.com.

ZURICH - Switzerland's health-care system could collapse by the end of the month if the new coronavirus keeps spreading at current rates, a government official warned on Tuesday .

"People who become infected today will only hit us in 10 days from now," Koch said at a news conference. The country of 8.6 million can muster 1,000 to 1,200 intensive care beds, although Koch said there was only limited staff to operate life-saving equipment like ventilators now in desperate demand in neighbouring Italy, where more than 2,100 have died.

A Reuters witness saw a handful of people ushered inside by an official wearing a mask and gloves on Tuesday afternoon.

 

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