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The lock light will expand. There should no longer be exceptions for “model cantons”. As BLICK knows from two independent sources, the Minister of Health, Alain Berset (48), went to the Federal Council on Wednesday with these two demands.
And: Chances are high that Berset’s demands will have a majority in state government, it is said.
Until well into February
The SP magistrate wants to keep restaurants closed until well into February instead of just January 22, as well as gyms and museums. Stores should still close at 7 pm The ban on Sunday sales will also be extended.
According to the Minister of Health, there should not be a cantonal patchwork quilt either. The same rules should now apply everywhere and no canton should keep restaurants open and the next closed.
Enough of R value
Cantons should now have had enough of always looking at the R value, that is, the value that shows how many people a person infected with corona is infected. Until now, this reproductive value has depended on whether or not a canton can make exceptions to the applicable rules. Currently, a canton can do this if the R-value was 0.9 for seven days: 100 infected people did not infect more than 90 people, and infection rates are lower than the Swiss average.
Also in the Federal Council it has been known for a long time that the R-value is a very inaccurate measured value and reflects too much on the past rather than showing current corona infections.
School closings are a problem
The president of the Cantonal Conference of Health Directors (GDK), Lukas Engelberger (45), renewed the ban on face-to-face teaching in schools on the subject of SRF television. “School closures are the last resort,” he emphasized.
It’s no accident that Engelberger talks about school closings. Health Minister Berset is also considering this. Because in your Federal Office of Public Health (BAG) there is great concern that the corona number could increase dramatically due to mutations of the virus from Great Britain and South Africa, which are said to be significantly more contagious than the original corona virus.
Discussion of school and store closures
As “Tages-Anzeiger” reports, Berset is already working on a stricter blocking package that he would like to send to the cantons for consultation. School closures are also a problem here.
You could also discuss closing stores that don’t offer daily necessities, and also a home office obligation instead of the recommendation above.
With this, Berset wants to be prepared in the event that the corona number rises sharply in the middle of the month due to the mutated virus. The blockade we had last spring could become a reality again.
