Swiss are set to vote on whether to ban face coverings in public on March 7
The poll asked 15,000 eligible voters, finding 63 percent favoured burqa ban
Text does not mention Muslim veils explicitly but is widely viewed as a burqa ban
Would ban covering face in public and public areas normally accessible to all
The initiative also makes several exceptions, including in places of worship
Swiss to vote in referendum on government’s Covid restrictions Not everyone is happy with the restrictions that have been imposed to contain the pandemic. Keystone / Laurent Gillieron Swiss campaigners have triggered a referendum to strip the government of new legal powers to impose lockdowns and curtail public life as the country battles the pandemic. This content…
Swiss look into effects of delayed Pfizer vaccine deliveries
A health worker prepares the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination at Lausanne University Hospital earlier this week Keystone / Laurent Gillieron
Pfizer-BioNTech has temporarily slowed shipments of its coronavirus vaccine to Europe. The Swiss health authorities say they are looking into the consequences for Switzerland.
This content was published on January 16, 2021 - 12:48
January 16, 2021 - 12:48
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Several European Union countries have saidExternal link that they are receiving fewer doses for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. In a statement on FridayExternal link, Pfizer confirmed shipments were being affected by changes to its manufacturing processes designed to boost production.
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5), an outbreak associated with contaminated meat pâté in Switzerland during 2016 (
6), and the largest listeriosis outbreak globally, which occurred in South Africa during 2017–2018 (
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8). More recently, the largest outbreak of listeriosis in Europe in the past 25 years was reported in Germany and was traced back to blood sausages contaminated with
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Human listeriosis is a reportable disease in Switzerland. All cases of culture- or PCR-confirmed human listeriosis are reported to the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (SFOPH). Diagnostic laboratories and regional (cantonal) laboratories forward isolates to the Swiss National Reference Centre for Enteropathogenic Bacteria and