A Swiss soldier (right) helps to move the bed of a patient, at the Pourtales Hospital in Neuchatel, after Switzerland deployed its army reservists to relieve hospitals under pressure from the outbreak of COVID-19. AFP/Fabrice COFFRINI

GENEVA: Switzerland on Thursday (Mar 26) joined the small group of countries to declare more than 10,000 officially-recorded cases of COVID-19, as it launched plans to start tracking crowd build-ups through mobile phone data.