Fight against the pandemic – cantons and business are undermining Berset’s test strategy

The test offensive against the third wave threatens to fizzle out.

Denis von Burg

Published: 03/20/2021, 10:34 PM—

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“Test, test, test!” – the demand of the Federal Council remains unfulfilled for the time being. Because the cantons are planning trödeln, In many places, mass tests in schools and companies are only to be expected in a few weeks – if at all. Because the most of the cantons do not yet have a plan.

In French-speaking Switzerland, for example, the Vaud, Friborg and Valais as well as Solothurn, Lucerne and Schwyz will only decide in the next few weeks whether and how they want to expand their pilot projects to include area tests. And the canton of Zurich, with one and a half million inhabitants in the test race against Corona, has only just formed a “working group to revise the test strategy,” as the health department explains. The canton does not specify target values ​​for the number and timing of the tests.

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