There were significantly fewer accidents on the Bern ski slopes over Christmas / New Year. The traffic light is still on orange for the sports weeks.
Posted today at 6:15 am—
–Almost as many people were skiing in the Jungfrau ski area during the week of the old year as in the previous year.
Photo: Marcel Bieri (Keystone)
In the days before Christmas it was the most discussed and at the same time most controversial political issue in the whole country: may the ski areas remain open or must they for the benefit of the? national Ghealth close? The question also worried beyond Switzerland neat Explosive. European Head of States setten Switzerland in November public under pressure and demanded a cross-alpine lockdown.
The Federal Council remained undeterred and left the decision to itwhether the ski areas should remain open, the individual cantons. While Schwyz, St. Gallen and Lucerne have theirs Lifts in a row about the holidays sthe supplement, held the major winter sports cantons such as Bern, Valais and Graubünden Shipoperation upright. The big question that arises in retrospect is: withu what price?
