During the Corona crisis, Brussels granted Bern uncomplicated access to the electronic early warning system for infectious diseases. ETH researchers are now saying, however, that Switzerland should not make itself a supplicant in the next health crisis.
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The European states are dependent on a close exchange when a new virus variant emerges, as in Great Britain.
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Hardly any other country is not a member of the EU, but is nonetheless as strongly integrated across borders as Switzerland. It participates in the free movement of people and generally no longer carries out personal controls at the Schengen borders. In addition to many positive effects, this also increases the risk that a virus can spread faster. Despite the close economic and social networking, Bern does not take part in the European system of epidemic protection that the EU has set up parallel to the liberalization of passenger and tourist traffic.
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