Corona’s test offensive weakens: Cantons and businesses are undermining Berset’s test strategy

“Test, test, test!” – The Federal Council’s demand remains unfulfilled for the time being. Because the cantons are planning tRödeln, In many places, mass testing in schools and businesses is only expected in a few weeks, if at all. Because the most cantons do not yet have a plan.

In French-speaking Switzerland, for example, Vaud, Friborg and Wallis, as well as Solothurn, Lucerne and Schwyz will only decide in the coming weeks if they want to expand their pilot projects to include area tests and how. And the canton of Zurich, with a million and a half inhabitants in the test race against Corona, has just formed a “working group to review the test strategy,” as the health department explains. The canton does not specify target values ​​for the number and timing of the tests.