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The Minister of Health, Alain Berset (48), wants to tighten the screw. As VIEW knows, it is proposing a whole series of measures to the entire Federal Council for Wednesday’s meeting to curb the rapid spread of the corona virus.
If the SP Federal Council has its way, private meetings are limited to ten people. In a draft that Berset sent to the cantons for consultation on Friday, he proposed a maximum limit of 15 people, and with this he found granite in many cantons. “How should that be controlled and sanctioned?” Asked a government councilor. Even in the Federal Council, Berset shouldn’t have an easy game with the lawsuit.
Possible ghost games
The SP magistrate only wants to allow 25 people to attend public events. According to reports, he would even be willing to lower the upper limit to 20 or 15 people. And Berset does not want to turn a blind eye to larger sporting or cultural events either: he proposes to the Federal Council to drastically reduce the number of spectators at football matches or concerts; if necessary, ghost games should be re-held without spectators. On the contrary, the two SVP federal councilors in particular should resist.
Berset also wants to close the clubs, no buts or buts. As with the cantons, you are likely to find goodwill in the Federal Council with this lawsuit. The same applies to the urgent recommendation from the home office.
Curfew, but since when?
The introduction of the curfew is more controversial: while the cantons do not want to impose this until 11 p.m., Berset sticks to his original proposal to close restaurants between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. It is quite possible that the bourgeois government will accommodate the restaurant industry at this point and surpasses Berset.
Mask requirement in city centers
The expansion of the mask requirement is likely to spark the most intense controversy in state government. After most cantons rejected a broad requirement for open-air masks during the consultation, Berset entered government with a weakened proposal.
That means: you don’t have to wear a mask when you walk through the woods, but you do have to wear when shopping in the city center, where there are a lot of people and distances cannot be maintained. Some bourgeois members of the government are likely to defend a weaker form.
New formula “CH + 60”
Finally, the Federal Council also wants to adjust the limit value to determine the risk areas. So far, people who have returned from countries with more than 60 corona cases per 100,000 inhabitants within 14 days had to be quarantined.
The criterion has been surprising for some time, because Switzerland has exceeded the limit value of 60 many times since mid-September. Only those areas should reportedly end up on the risk list in the future with a value of 14 days per 100,000 inhabitants 60 higher than that of Switzerland. The new formula is called: “CH + 60”.
One thing is clear: there will be heated discussions in the Federal Council. The divisions between Finance Minister Ueli Maurer (69), who warns of a crown hysteria, and Health Minister Berset, who, after some hesitation, now wants to press the accelerator, could hardly be deeper. In any case, the federal administration is preparing to rewrite the prepared works.
