Coronavirus: Task force is aiming for partial lockdown

The Swiss Covid Task Force is calling for stricter measures to contain the corona pandemic. She suggests bars, restaurants, museums and theaters close. Private contacts should be limited to two households.

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There are still no indications that the measures decreed by the Federal Council on October 28th initiated a trend reversal towards a marked and sustainable decline in the corona epidemic. This is what the federal scientific task force writes in its most recent assessment of the situation. The indicators collected to monitor the epidemic – daily case numbers, hospital admissions, transfers to intensive care units and deaths – merely indicated that the spread of the virus was stabilizing.