of june, the application was released to the public. use of the app is voluntary and based on a decentralized approach using bluetooth low energy, and uses google and apple's exposure notification system, which was significantly influenced by the dp3t team. as of mid-september, the app is used by over 1.6 million people everyday, with around 450–500 exposure notifications sent a week, for a total of over 2700 confirmed infections per week. an agreement between eu countries to make applications compatible exists, but there is no legal basis for the swisscovid application to be part of this agreement, even though technically speaking it is said to be ready, according to the federal office of public health. summary of fiscal response during the first wave, the total swiss distribution of relief funds totaled 73 billion chf, around 10.4% of swiss gdp. this included a package on march 13, 2020, of 10 billion chf. 8 billion of which went to compensation of people who were employed part time, 1 billion for hard hit firms, and 580 million for loan guarantees and compensation for cancelled events. an additional 32 billion chf package was announced on march 20, 2020, aimed at extending part-time employee subsidies, a guarantee of 20 billion chf for small business bridging loans, interest free deferral payments to social security, extended timelines for tax payments and payments to state owned suppliers, and compensation for losses of self employed workers. on march 25, further measures of 600 million chf per month were also provided. further expansions to the aforementioned support measures were announced on april 3, april 8, april 16, april 22, and april 29. these included a doubling of small business loan guarantees to 40 billion chf and 1.9 billion chf credit support relief to swiss airlines. further support measures were also adopted by the swiss government during the first wave of the pandemic. the swiss value added tax (vat) was suspended through the end of 2020. additionally debt repayments and prosecution for bankruptcy was suspended from march to april 2020. the swiss government underwent different periods of debt payment suspensions before instituting a 3-month grace period option from debt collections available to any small business that was not over indebted prior to december, 2019. furthermore, a stimulus program was added called innovation switzerland, aimed at assuaging swiss firms' financial conditions and incentivizing them to pursue long-term projects, in order to preserve swiss firms' competitiveness. vaccination campaign main article: covid-19 vaccination in switzerland the mrna covid vaccinations were given approval by swiss agency for therapeutic products (swissmedic) in december 2020 and january 2021. priority for early vaccinations was given to persons aged 75 years or older, or with preexisting illnesses that are known to increase the risk of a severe covid infection. by 24 april 2021, 2,273,981 doses of covid-19 vaccine had been administrated. on august 1, 2021, switzerland achieved a vaccination rate of 52%. a total of 9, 713, 333 doses had been administered resulting in a 52% fully vaccinated rate and a 6% partially vaccinated rate. legal consequences in september 2021, the swiss federal supreme court ruled that the canton of bern had acted disproportionately by restricting the fundamental right to freedom of assembly. the cantonal government had temporarily restricted any gathering of people, including political rallies, to a maximum of 15 people. statistics as with most countries, the number of people actually have had covid-19 in switzerland is likely to be much higher than the number of confirmed cases, especially as, since 6 march 2020, the swiss government has had an official policy of not testing people with only mild symptoms. charts the charts for total and daily confirmed cases, recoveries and deaths are based on the data collected by the federal office of public health (swiss institute for public health), as per the actual dates. because of the use of actual dates and as some delay occurs in reporting, all figures are subject to retrospective updating. cumulative number of confirmed cases, active cases and deaths total deaths comparison of actual deaths per week with expected mortality since 2015 deaths in switzerland by age group deaths in switzerland by age group(deceased patients who tested positive for sars-cov-2) age hospitalised deaths % of deaths 0–9 years 32920,02 % 10–19 years 17510,01 % 20–29 years 54830,03 % 30–39 years 962100,10 % 40–49 years 1876390,38 % 50–59 years 39182051,98 % 60–69 years 53146986,73 % 70–79 years 7213209820,24 % ≥ 80 years 9433731070,52 % status as of 7 july 2021