From today any remaining Covid restrictions drop.
The mask requirement on public transport and in medical facilities ends and anyone who had caught the virus in the last five days no longer needs to isolate.
The rules are dropping as a time limit on special government powers put in place in June 2020, ends.
But the Health Minister, Alain Berset, says that while we can’t say the crisis is over – but the worst of it is.
The government is no longer following infection rates to judge its policies – but hospitalization numbers. Berset says the number being treated is stable.
Although the rules set by Bern fall away today. Cantons have the right to set their own laws. For example, in Geneva it will still be a requirement to wear a mask in hospitals.
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