Swiss plan to extend COVID-19 restrictions to end of February

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Switzerland plans to extend its lockdown restrictions by five weeks to the end of February, including closing all restaurants, cultural and recreational sites, the government said on Wednesday.

Exemptions for regions less severely hit by the coronavirus have been scrapped, the government said, with a country-wide approach entering force from Saturday.

An extension is now needed because “it is already foreseeable that the number of cases will not decrease significantly and sustainably in the coming weeks,” the government said. “We have to run a marathon in regards to this pandemic and now the hard part starts as people get tired and they want to give up,” Health Minister Alain Berset said in a press conference. “We cannot do that.”

 

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