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Swiss report 10,726 new coronavirus cases over three days

FILE PHOTO: Civil protection agents Karim Melliti and Mehdi Ben Khaelifa perform an antigenic rapid test at the screening center of La Tour Hospital as Swiss civil protection agents are deployed to help during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Meyrin near Geneva, Switzerland, November 26, 2020. Picture taken November 26, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

Coronavirus infections rose by 10,726 since Friday, data https://www.covid19.admin.ch/en/overview from Swiss health authorities showed on Monday.

The total number of confirmed cases in Switzerland and neighbouring principality Liechtenstein increased to 384,557, including from mass testing in the Swiss canton of Grisons conducted Friday through Sunday.

The death toll rose by 193 to 5,589, while 445 new hospitalisations kept pressure on the health care system, as hospital directors wrote to Health Minister Alain Berset expressing their concerns.

(Reporting by John Miller, Editing by John Revill)

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