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The two Basles are currently considered 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 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 the director of health, Thomas Weber, and the director of security, Kathrin Schweizer, which include conversations between one and six people.
According to information from “Blick”, Berset wants to continue pressuring the cantons to toughen their measures if the numbers do not drop. 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. The falling 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, in contrast to the Basel area, the numbers are already tending to decline.
Telebasel will broadcast Point de Presse live with Federal Councilor Alain Berset, Basel Director of Health Thomas Weber and Basel Director of Safety Kathrin Schweizer starting at 12:15 pm
