Seven out of ten vaccination centers close in August
Health director Pierre Alain Schnegg was able to report positive things to the media about the coronavirus on Friday. But at the same time he urged caution.
Health director Pierre Alain Schnegg was able to report positive things about coronavirus on Friday: “We have the worst behind us,” he emphasized.
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The corona situation in the canton of Bern has stabilized. “The worst is behind us,” said Bernese health director Pierre Alain Schnegg in front of the media in Bern on Friday.
At the same time, Schnegg urged caution, because the virus was still there and, with a view to the summer holidays and the spreading delta variant, there would be more difficult weeks ahead of the population.
The health director called on the population to get vaccinated, especially now that the situation is relatively calm and there are many appointments in the canton’s ten vaccination centers. Seven of the ten vaccination centers close at the end of August: Bern Wankdorf and Bernexpo, Tavannes, Interlaken, Burgdorf, Langenthal, Langnau. The vaccination centers in Biel and Thun will close at the end of September. In autumn, only the vaccination center at Bern’s Inselspital will remain in operation.
Schnegg does not want to take any new protective measures should the number of cases rise again in autumn, as he told the media in Bern. For this reason, contact tracing and outbreak management are kept at a high level. The containment strategy is shifting to the early detection of sources of infection.
However, if new virus variants appear from October and overload the health system, the canton will extend the use of the certificate and, if necessary, introduce further measures, as Schnegg announced.
At the same time, the health director made it clear that he did not want to impose any measures on the majority of the population to protect the minority who did not want to be vaccinated.
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