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The two Basles are currently considered to be one of the troubled children of the Swiss crown. Today, Thursday, Federal Councilor Alain Berset visits the rural canton to get an idea of the situation in Corona. A visit with consequences?
The number of cases in the Basel area has been high since November and goes against the slightly declining national trend. This trend continued in part in early December. Yesterday Wednesday there were 174 new cases in the Basel area, the fourth highest value in history. There were also three more deaths as a result of Covid 19 disease.
After the canton of the city tightened the screw again on November 20 to reduce the number of cases, the Basel area was limited to publishing a video message to the population. No further action was planned, it was said at the time.
Does Berset Weber speak to conscience?
Now, the Minister of Health wants to take a closer look at the situation there. Visits to the Corona facilities in Basel are planned together with Health Director Thomas Weber and Safety Director Kathrin Schweizer, including one-to-one and six-person conversations.
According to information from “Blick”, Berset wants to continue pressuring the cantons to tighten their measures if the numbers do not fall. In addition to the number of cases, an indicator could also be the so-called R-value (number of infections by an infected person). The replay value of an ETH monitoring as of Nov 21 has shown an R value of 1 and more for the Basel area for a long time. So the decreasing values look different.
What will Berset say now about the high number of cases? Are you pressuring the Basel government to take stricter measures? In view of the upcoming Christmas holidays, this also seems likely, especially as it has already been leaked through various outlets that Berset would plan stricter crown rules, as a home office requirement, for the whole of Switzerland. And in Switzerland, unlike the Basel area, the numbers are already tending to decline.
Telebasel will broadcast Point de Presse live with Federal Councilor Alain Berset, Basel Health Director Thomas Weber and Basel Safety Director Kathrin Schweizer starting at 12:15 pm
