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Health Minister Alain Berset still planned on Sunday not to decide on new Covid measures until the end of December. But now the pressure increases every day that the Federal Council has to react on Friday.
The Minister of Health, Alain Berset, during a video conference on the coronavirus.
Photo: Peter Klaunzer (Keystone)
Health Minister Alain Berset proposed three packages of measures to the cantons on Sunday. The Federal Council should decide on this on December 28, when the effect of the most recent resolutions can be measured (read more about Berset’s contingency plans). But the pressure on the state government is mounting to sharpen on Friday, and to close restaurants, for example.
The numbers are increasing again
“The number of cases is increasing again, there has been a change in trend in the negative direction”: this is how Patrick Mathys from the Federal Office of Public Health (BAG) summed up the situation at a press conference on Tuesday. Hospital admissions and deaths continue to decline slightly, but with a delay, these values are likely to rise again soon, from a high level.
