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Switzerland, unable to control the epidemic COVID-19 Having the highest contagion rates in Europe, it has adopted a series of measures today, including closing restaurants, bars and shops at 7pm.
However, these places will be open until 1:00 p.m. December 24 to 25 and on the night of December 31 to January 1, the government announced, specifying that the measures will take effect from tomorrow, Saturday, December 12.
Exceptions will be possible to the closure of restaurants and shops in cantons with “good epidemiological status”, that is, if the reproduction rate is less than 1 for at least 7 consecutive days and if the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants is less than the Swiss average for the last 7 days.
Shops, sports and leisure facilities, museums and libraries should also be closed at 7:00 p.m., as well as on Sundays.
Public events are prohibited, with with the exception of religious services and legislative assemblies.
“We are in a critical situation,” said Swiss President Simoneta Samaruga, adding that the increase in the epidemic was “exponential” and that hospitals “had reached their limits.”
Health has never been so bad with almost 5,000 new cases a day, compared to a few hundred during the first wave, and a percentage of positive diagnostic tests that remains at very high levels.
Authorities announced today 5,136 new cases and 106 additional deaths in Switzerland and the neighboring principality of Liechtenstein.
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