Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the media and on Google in Switzerland 2020

Between February 10 and March 27, 2020 the highest number of Google searches with the terms coronavirus or COVID-19 were recorded in Switzerland. That was the day on which the Swiss Federal Council decided on special measures to contain the virus in the country. After March 16, while Google searches about the disease once again decreased, media reporting about the coronavirus (COVID-19) peaked on March 19.

Attention to the terms coronavirus and COVID-19 in media reports and in Google searches in Switzerland in 2020

Characteristic	Media reports	Google searches
Mar 27	89	42
Mar 26	97	40
Mar 25	88	42
Mar 24	75	45
Mar 23	77	50
Mar 21	60	58
Mar 20	91	58
Mar 19	100	59
Mar 18	99	63
Mar 17	91	65
Mar 16	88	91
Mar 14	62	77
Mar 13	86	100
Mar 12	81	72
Mar 11	65	56
Mar 10	58	48
Mar 9	52	45
Mar 7	49	39
Mar 6	75	40
Mar 5**	80	42
Mar 4	82	38
Mar 3	60	36
Mar 2	52	40
Feb 29	43	43
Feb 28	60	54
Feb 27	51	46
Feb 26	36	34
Feb 25	31	35
Feb 24	28	26
Feb 22	10	14
Feb 21	16	5
Feb 20	16	2
Feb 19	15	2
Feb 18	17	3
Feb 17	13	3
Feb 15	4	10
Feb 14	16	4
Feb 13	17	5
Feb 12	17	4
Feb 11	16	4
Feb 10	11	4

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Release date

March 2020

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Region

Switzerland

Survey time period

February 10 to March 27, 2020

Special properties

Excluding Sundays

Supplementary notes

* February 25: first case in Switzerland.
** March 5: first death in Switzerland.
*** March 13: Federal Council decides on special measures.

For better comparability, figures were indexed on a scale of 0 to 100. Definition: 0= no data available, 100= highest figure of the respective data set. Beachtung der Begriffe Coronavirus und COVID-19 in Medienberichten und bei Google-Anfragen in der Schweiz vom 10. Februar bis 27. März 2020 (Skala von 0 bis 100)

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