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Swiss plan free coronavirus tests for population

This content was published on Mar 5, 2021 Switzerland has unveiled a CHF1 billion plan to offer free coronavirus tests for its entire population.

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Minute’s silence and church bells announced for Covid victims

This content was published on Mar 3, 2021 Everyone in Switzerland has been invited to observe a minute’s silence on Friday for the more than 9,000 people who have died from Covid-19.

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Parliament criticises government over Covid policy

This content was published on Mar 3, 2021 The House of Representatives has approved a declaration calling on the Swiss government to lift Covid restrictions.

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New Covid variants account for 70% of new infections in Switzerland

This content was published on Mar 2, 2021 Despite a stagnation in the number of new infections, the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) has called for restraint and more testing.

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Lockdown opponents ratchet up pressure on Swiss government

This content was published on Feb 28, 2021 Shops, cultural and outdoor recreational facilities will be allowed to open up from Monday as part of a staggered easing of measures. But restaurants and bars will have to wait until at least March 22 and only re-open on this date if the Covid-19 infection rate remains under control. This ruling has generated protest from…

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New lobby group demands end to Swiss-EU deadlock

This content was published on Feb 28, 2021 Representatives of politics, science, academia and business are concerned that high-level political talks between Brussels and Bern have remained stalled for the last two years. Switzerland is not a member state of the EU but has a host of bilateral treaties that grant it preferential access to the European bloc. In 2014, Brussels demanded that…

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The stolen childhood of the factory children

This content was published on Feb 27, 2021 Many children slaved away in Swiss factories during the industrial revolution. A political outsider helped ban child labour relatively early.

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Defiant cantons bend to government will on ski terraces

This content was published on Feb 26, 2021 Several Swiss cantons that had re-opened ski resort restaurant terraces in defiance of national rules are now reluctantly performing a U-turn.

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Ex-minister’s hostage ransom remark draws attention of prosecutor

This content was published on Feb 26, 2021 The Swiss federal prosecutor is examining whether a former government minister broke the official secrets act by suggesting that Switzerland has paid ransoms for hostages.

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Top Swiss diplomat to head migration and asylum agency

This content was published on Feb 25, 2021 Christine Schraner Burgener, United Nations special envoy to Myanmar, to be new head of the Swiss State Secretariat for Migration (SEM).

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