A first case of the Covid-19 variant contributing to the exploding outbreak in India has been detected in Switzerland, the public health authority said.
“The first case of the Indian variant of Covid-19 has been discovered in Switzerland,” Switzerland's Federal Office of Public Health (BAG) said. The virus variant was found in “a passenger who arrived in Switzerland after transiting through a European airport”.
“The person changed flights in a European country before flying on to Switzerland,” spokesman Daniel Dauwalder told AFP in an email, adding that the positive sample was collected in March in the northern canton of Solothurn.
