{"id":103994,"date":"2020-03-19T16:25:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T23:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/swiss-hospitals-face-collapse-in-10-days-if-virus-keeps-spreading"},"modified":"2020-03-19T16:25:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T23:25:34","slug":"swiss-hospitals-face-collapse-in-10-days-if-virus-keeps-spreading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/swiss-hospitals-face-collapse-in-10-days-if-virus-keeps-spreading","title":{"rendered":"Swiss hospitals face collapse in 10 days if virus keeps spreading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/swiss-hospitals-face-collapse-in-10-days-if-virus-keeps-spreading2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ZURICH (Reuters) \u2014 Switzerland\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Swiss authorities estimated that 2,650 people had tested positive for the coronavirus and said 19 people had died, while predicting cases will likely soar in the weeks ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Exact figures were unavailable. Daniel Koch, head of the Federal Office of Health\u2019s communicable diseases division, said the rapid rise had outstripped the state\u2019s ability to record new cases in real time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZURICH (Reuters) \u2014 Switzerland\u2019s 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. Swiss authorities estimated that 2,650 people had tested positive for the coronavirus and said 19 people had died, while predicting cases will likely soar in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1490,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-government","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}