Several European countries have relaxed their blood donation restrictions, but Switzerland still lags behind, reports Swiss public broadcaster RTS. Change may however be ahead. The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a blood shortage in many countries, including Switzerland, RTS said on Sunday. Donations have become less frequent and less easy to organise, for example at the workplace, due to working from home, it said. According to the organisation Swiss Transfusion SRC, which helps secure blood supply in Switzerland, supply levels of blood type O- are currently dangerously low. The University Hospitals of Geneva launched its own donation campaign in July in an effort to counter the shortage. But for some, the solution to the blood shortage lies in relaxing the donation restrictions. In Switzerland they are still fairly strict compared with some countries. You have to be a healthy adult, weigh more than 50kg, and have not changed sexual partner in the last four months – although...
