Swiss voters have backed the law behind the country's Covid pass, according to the first projections following today's referendum at the end of an unusually tense and hostile campaign.
Shortly after the polls closed at noon (11am Irish time), market researchers GFS Bern, who conducted the main polling throughout the campaign, projected that the "yes" vote was heading for victory.
As in much of Europe, the country has seen growing anger over restrictions aimed at reining in the pandemic, and pressure to get vaccinated.
But in a country where referenda take place every few months in a climate of civility and measured debate, the soaring tensions around the vote have come as a shock.