Coronavirus in Zurich: Zurich is now a risk area by Swiss standards



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The number of new Covid infections in the last 14 days in the canton has reached the BAG limit. What are the consequences? Answers to the six most important questions.

Only with a mask: women shopping in Zurich.

Only with a mask: women shopping in Zurich.

Photo: Dominique Meienberg

What is the significance of the border that the canton of Zurich has crossed?

60 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in two weeks: this is the limit value that, if exceeded, Switzerland declares that other countries are risk zones. Anyone who enters from there must go into quarantine. The limit was in Compliance with the thresholds established by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.If Zurich were assessed according to the same rules, it would have to be considered a risk area with immediate effect. The Zurich government absolutely wants to avoid this, as it said at a press conference early last week.

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