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The two Basles still go their separate ways in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic: while Baselland is introducing a 9 p.m. curfew for restaurants until January 17, 2021, Basel-Stadt is extending the total closure. restaurants for a week until December 20.
The early curfew in the canton of Baselland also applies to Christmas and New Year’s Eve, the Basel government announced Tuesday at an online press conference. The upper limit for restaurant occupancy is now lowered from 100 to 50 people per room.
As an added setting, you have an upper limit of 15 people for events. In addition, with few exceptions, it has banned all sports activities, such as training sessions or competitions, in public access facilities and outdoors.
In addition, leisure institutions, from youth centers to wellness centers and erotic businesses, would have to close. Competitive and school sports, as well as professional games, are listed as exceptions to sports activities. Religious gatherings on holidays, political activities or funerals are excluded from the upper limit of events.
The government has taken no further measures in the school sector.
Additional package of measures in the hindquarters
The measures will go into effect on Friday and will apply until January 17, 2021. In case they do not have enough effect, the government has already prepared a new package of measures, said Health Director Thomas Weber (SVP). The corresponding ordinance also establishes that anyone who contradicts these requirements will be penalized with a fine.
The measurements are with the neighboring cantons of Basel-Stadt. Aargau and Solothurn were in agreement and largely congruent, said district president Anton Lauber (CVP). This applies in particular to the prohibitions in the field of sports and the upper limit for events.
The northwestern cantons of Switzerland still go their separate ways when it comes to gastronomy: while Baselland and Solothurn now have a 9pm curfew, Aargau will only announce it on Wednesday, Basel-Stadt had all the restaurants and restaurants on November 30 Let the bars close.
When asked about this discrepancy, Weber replied: It is now the canton of the city that is treading its own path in northwestern Switzerland. The canton of Baselland carefully weighed between health-related measures and economic and social damage.
But he understands that Basel-Stadt will not lift the general closure of restaurants in the short term, especially since it is not yet known what measures the Federal Council will order on Friday, Weber said.
The highest number of cases in Baselland
The canton of Baselland posted a new record for positive tests on Tuesday with 208 new infections, as can be seen from the cantonal case statistics. At the same time, the number of deaths from Covid-19 increased to 89 (+1). The total number of coronavirus infections recorded so far is 7,803 cases.
The number of hospitalizations in Baselland increased from 2 to 61. There were 8 people in the intensive care unit, 4 of them had to be ventilated.
In Basel-Stadt there were 150 corona patients in hospital care on Tuesday. At the same time, the canton of the city recorded 94 new infections and two more deaths.
