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The Swiss government plans to halt most free Covid-19 testing for people who are not vaccinated now that nearly half the population has received their jabs.
Reuters reports:
For the government, protecting hospital structures now has priority, no longer protecting the non-vaccinated population,” the Swiss government said while keeping in place scaled-back curbs on public life it adopted in June as new cases were on the decline.
New cases have since rebounded to more than 2,000 a day. More than 730,000 people in Switzerland and tiny neighbour Liechtenstein have had confirmed infections and around 10,400 have died of the disease since the pandemic broke out last year.
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