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It’s difficult to ski in the old week of the year: St. Gallen recommends that all of Switzerland close the slopes
The canton of St. Gallen begins its two dozen ski areas
On December 22 it will close again. Vorarlberg is now opening his tracks, but the Swiss have a new quarantine obligation.
A little dream before Christmas in the Corona year: last Saturday skiers in the Flumser mountains.
If you want to escape the sadness of Corona on the ski slopes between Christmas and New Years, you’ll still be sitting on pins and needles. The government of St. Gallen will only decide on Saturday whether the canton’s ski areas will remain open from December 22. That was “quite unlikely,” Prime Minister Bruno Damann said at Tuesday’s press conference.
Due to the current crown numbers (infections, R-value, hospitalizations), no approval could be granted, unless there was, miraculously, a significant change in the next few days, Damann said. The reason is not the risk of contagion in winter sports, but the risk of accidents, as indicated last week by the health officer: serious ski accidents with serious head injuries lead to hospitals contaminated by the crown to their capacity limits.
Closing all of Switzerland would be “sensible”
“We have the rule: 50 percent of the bed capacity is for corona patients and 50 percent is for other patients,” Damann explained on request. “At the moment we can still do it. But we could no longer record many ski accidents. Patients with severe head trauma would come to the intensive care unit in St. Gallen. “
Damann does not hide the fact that the people of Graubünden “should also consider” closing their ski areas and that the Federal Council should ban skiing throughout Switzerland. “That would be sensible.” The Federal Council decides to toughen it up on Friday, the St. Gallen government will follow more or less without objection and will report on it on Saturday afternoon. Therefore, the federal directives could apply to both gastronomy (where St. Gallen recommends a closure) and ski areas.
Is it still possible to ski with the neighbors?
Nothing with Flumserberge, Pizol or Wildhaus, and nothing with Davos or Klosters? St. Gallen families who plan to ski in the week between Christmas and New Years should look forward to this. But can you go to the nearby ski areas without the Rhine? Basically yes, because the Malbun remains open. It is true that the government of Liechtenstein also issued a quick blockade from December 20 to Tuesday
January 10 in the offing, called a “winter break package,” but wants to continue to allow skiing and ice skating.
Most of the Vorarlberg ski lifts are in operation during the holidays: Austria allows the slopes to open from December 24, but without après-ski fun in bars and restaurants. However, eastern Swiss ski enthusiasts cannot flirt with a trip to Bregenzerwald (eg Bödele) or Arlberg (Lech-Zürs). Because Austria is tightening quarantine rules: From December 19 to January 10, all people entering from corona risk areas are subject to a ten-day quarantine obligation. Although the details and possible exceptions (eg for travelers) are still regulated, Switzerland and even more so the eastern cantons of Switzerland are clearly part of the defined risk area, which reads “all countries with an incidence of 7 days greater than 100 “.
For local winter sports enthusiasts, the only alternative is the Malbun, as long as a bad conscience allows. Finally, canton doctor Danuta Zemp of St. Gallen asked emphatically at the press conference: “Don’t try to find the loopholes in the rules!”
