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Valais undertakers barely keep up with work. On average, more than ten people die from the coronavirus every day. “We are completely overwhelmed,” the Valais funeral director said recently in the French-language newspaper “Le Matin Dimanche”.
And goodbyes are particularly sad these days. Since mid-October, the Valais authorities have banned not only visits to hospitals and nursing homes, but also larger groups at burials.
Mini-lock
The virus is raging violently in the canton of the mountain. To prevent hospitals from being overloaded, the government imposed tougher corona measures on October 22, a week before the Federal Council, and banned contact sports such as soccer. Since November 6, restaurants and gas stations have also been closed in the mountain canton. Only the classrooms are still occupied.
The big question now is: how much virus did the measurements contain? With around 1,200 infections per 100,000 people in the last two weeks, the mountainous canton is still in the red in Switzerland. Even if the French-speaking cantons of Geneva, Freiburg, Vaud and Neuchâtel are now more affected.
Positive signage
Hospitals gave the go-ahead last week. “Over the weekend, we observed that the number of new cases that have to go to hospital has decreased markedly,” Reinhard Zenhäusern, medical director of the Upper Valais hospital center, told Radio SRF. The situation in intensive care units is also stable.
Valais District President Christophe Darbellay (49, CVP), Health Director Esther Waeber-Kalbermatten (68, SP) and Security Director Frédéric Favre (41, FDP) take stock of Corona’s measures adopted today in Zion. BLICK TV will broadcast the press conference live from 2:00 p.m. (until)
