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In Graubünden, all restaurants must close for two weeks on Friday at 11 pm The pressure on Switzerland to limit skiing is enormous.
Protected: skiers wearing protective masks against Covid-19, recorded on Sunday, November 29, 2020 at the Hörnli in Arosa.
Photo: keystone-sda.ch/Gian Ehrenzeller
In Graubünden, “the restaurants will be open from Friday, December 4, 2020; To close at 11 at night ”, says a confidential letter from the director of economy Marcus Caduff to the industry, which this newspaper has. The only exception to this rule is hospitality for hotel guests in hotel restaurants. This regulation will initially apply for 14 days.
Measure is also an answer on massive pressure from the EU and neighboring countries see Switzerland, close the ski areas and finally reduce the number of infections. In Graubünden, the innkeepers react in horror. Casimir Platzer, Chairman of Gastro Suisse and therefore Switzerland’s “first brewer”, does not believe in these measures. ‘I do not think the Graubünden measures are effective. The virus will not disappear in two weeks. “International experience and experience in French-speaking Switzerland have shown that it generally takes longer before the stricter lockdown measures start to take effect. Platzer:” In Austria, the numbers have not decreased despite the drastic blocking measures. “
For Platzer and bourgeois politicians alike, the Graubünden closures and the measures that Alain Berset will present are a reaction to pressure from neighboring countries and the EU. Platzer: “The quarantine measures that EU states are threatening visitors to Switzerland are like blackmail and are heading towards an economic war.”
But there are also homemade reasons for the closure of restaurants in Graubünden, namely the high reproduction values (R-value). For a time, Graubünden was at the top of Switzerland. The ski canton of Valais, on the other hand, has shown that the number of infections is drastically decreasing with tough measures. That is also the reason given by the Grisons director of economics for closing the restaurants: “In several German-speaking cantons, especially in Graubünden, the number of infections is increasing slightly or is stable at a high level. The average number of views in Graubünden is 1.02. However, this value should be even higher. Graubünden thus has the fourth highest number of views in Switzerland. According to the Federal Office of Public Health, the number of reproductions should be below 0.7 “.
