The President of the Confederation met with her counterparts in the cantons on Tuesday to standardize the responses to be adopted in the face of the pandemic.
The President of the Confederation Simonetta Sommaruga, accompanied by the President of the Conference of Cantonal Governments Christian Rathgeb, spoke quickly at the end of the meeting which took place at the Bernerhof in Bern.
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Representatives of the cantons and the Federal Council met on Tuesday to tune their violins regarding the coronavirus. The discussion took place under the aegis of the President of the Confederation Simonetta Sommaruga.
This is not a crisis summit, but a discussion, underlined Ms. Sommaruga after the meeting in Bern. Since the start of the pandemic, collaboration between the cantons and the Confederation has been good. This is necessary in this situation. It is important to meet regularly, especially since the decisions to be made are difficult, she added.
More distant perspectives
The discussion focused on short-term issues, but also more distant perspectives, noted the Gray Councilor of State Christian Rathgeb, president of the Conference of Cantonal Governments. No one knows how long the current situation will last.
The President of the Confederation summoned her counterparts from the cantons last week. Several cantons want uniform regulations for the organization of major events from October 1.
The Conference of Cantonal Directors of Health came out in favor of extending the ban on demonstrations with more than 1,000 people until the end of the year, due to the still unstable epidemiological situation.
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