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Covid-19: Switzerland tightens restrictions for the unvaccinated

Waitress wearing a mask serves food ina restaurant

This content was published on Dec 17, 2021 Switzerland to restrict access to restaurants, bars, cultural and sports facilities to vaccinated people or those recently recovered from infection.

Opinion

Education

Good intentions don’t guarantee good value

This content was published on Dec 17, 2021 Out-of-school programmes to develop children’s STEM skills are booming. Some may be helpful, but others may be harmful, says Elsbeth Stern.

Education

Teachers: urgent corona coordination needed for schools

This content was published on Dec 14, 2021 Switzerland’s two main teaching associations have called for urgent, coordinated anti-corona measures in schools.

Education

Swiss-style farming in the Caucasus

This content was published on Dec 14, 2021 A new Swiss-style college has opened in Georgia, modelled on Plantahof, a renowned Swiss agricultural training centre.

Two nurses make the bed of an elderly patient

Demographics

Nursing home deaths spiralled during second pandemic wave

This content was published on Dec 13, 2021 Death rates at Swiss nursing and retirement homes were 80% higher than normal in the last months of 2020.

Demographics

Europe’s ski resorts hope to come in from the cold

This content was published on Dec 13, 2021 Europe's winter season has got off to a faltering start amid Covid curbs and memories of spring 2020 ‘superspreader’ events.

Culture

Nazi-looted art: Zurich museum and foundation agree to more transparency

This content was published on Dec 12, 2021 The Kunsthaus Zurich and the Bührle Foundation say they will disclose their contracts concerning the loan of 203 works of art.

History

‘Forgotten’ Swiss resistance fighters could be rehabilitated

This content was published on Dec 12, 2021 More than 460 Swiss citizens fought in the French Resistance during the Second World War.

Culture

Bern museum to give up 29 works from Gurlitt collection

This content was published on Dec 10, 2021 The Bern Museum of Fine Arts has said it will give up 29 works whose provenance is linked to “conspicuous circumstances”.

Education

Study shows benefit of regular classroom ventilation

This content was published on Dec 9, 2021 A Swiss study has found that poorly ventilated school classrooms record up to six times as many Covid-19 cases compared with those which are regularly aired.

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