GENEVA
Switzerland on Sunday confirmed 841 new cases of coronavirus, raising the tally to 2,200, the country’s health authority said.
The Federal Office of Public Health in Switzerland said the death toll has risen to 14.
All schools were closed in the country as part of measures to curb the coronavirus outbreak.
Switzerland’s official news website Swissinfo reported that “for the first time, the Swiss army will deploy a hospital battalion on March 16 to support other civilian hospitals; it can welcome 200 patients.”
In France, health minister Oliver Veran said that a total of 29 people died of COVID-19
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