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Not all desks were served at Wednesday’s Federal Council meeting. Guy Parmelin (60) participated by videoconference, as confirmed by the spokesman for the Federal Council, André Simonazzi, corresponding press reports. Consequently, Parmelin is in quarantine because a person in his professional background tested positive for Corona. The SVP Federal Council is the first member of the state government to be known about the quarantine.
But also in the Department of Defense (VBS) appointments have already been canceled due to people infected with corona in the vicinity of the head of VBS, Viola Amherd (58, CVP). The Federal Councilor herself had not recently had any contact with the person who tested positive. Therefore, the Swiss defense minister is not in quarantine and has not had to be examined.
Viruses also in the justice and police departments
Recently, two people close to Justice Minister Karin Keller-Sutter (56, FDP) tested positive. Keller-Sutter participated in the Federal Council meeting, he was doing well, as his “Tages-Anzeiger” spokesman said. Other people in your department will continue to work as before after consulting the main field doctor.
Last week it became clear that Corona is now everywhere. Keller-Sutter participated in a meeting of the corporate audit committee on Monday, which was also attended by National Counselor Senior Vice President Alfred Heer. Subsequently, he tested positive for the corona virus and is in quarantine. However: the concept of protection in the Bundeshaus ensured that Keller-Sutter did not get infected. The Federal Councilor was protected by Plexiglas walls at the meeting and had not been tested.
MPs are available
The state government is prepared for emergencies: “Each and every one of us has a deputy,” emphasized federal president Simonetta Sommaruga in March (60). Therefore, the official activity could continue. As has already been the case on several occasions, for example, when former Finance Minister Hans-Rudolf Merz (77) suffered a heart attack in the midst of the UBS crisis in 2008, his deputy Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf (63) intervened.
