Strong increase in corona cases: the Federal Council analyzes the blockade scenario



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What if the new Corona measures don’t work? The Federal Council will discuss possible next steps at its meeting on Wednesday, including a radical variant.

As in spring: in the event of a circuit breaker or brief closure, restaurants would have to close again.

As in spring: in the event of a circuit breaker or a brief closure, restaurants would have to close again.

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Again around 3,000 infections with the corona virus. The Federal Office of Public Health also reported many new cases on Tuesday. The doubling time is currently about a week, says Stefan Kuster, head of the department of communicable diseases at the Federal Office of Public Health, in front of the media. And that will continue until the measures decided by the Federal Council on Sunday come into force.

But what if these are not enough? Other countries are currently considering a brief two-week lockdown. At the press conference, Kuster was asked if this was not a problem in Switzerland. Every measure that could be applied in some way is also evaluated and then accepted or rejected by the relevant decision makers, said Stefan Kuster. This included brief lockouts, also known as “circuit breakers.” This measure will be examined, so Kuster.

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