For the first time since the start of the Covid-19 epidemic, an infant died of the disease in Switzerland after being infected abroad, the Ministry of Health announced on Friday.
"This death does not concern a schoolboy, it is an infant who died", in the canton of Aargau in the north of the country, said a representative of the Federal Office of Public Health, Stefan Kuster, during a press conference.
It is not the first baby to die from Covid-19 in the world. In late March, a child under the age of one died in Illinois, in the United States. A few days later, a six-week-old infant died of the disease in Connecticut, another US state.