Fighting the pandemic has been expensive. The latest figures show the country is CHF 12.2bn in the red. That’s twice as much as budgeted.
CHF 14bn was spent on Covid measures, including compensation for reduced working hours, hardship cases and loss of earnings allowances.
But last year was still just under a billion francs less expensive than 2020.
The government says there should be no further extraordinary costs and the budget should return to normal next year – with CHF 600,000 surplus.
UNIL patience running out
It seems the patience of the University of Lausanne has run out.
New covid variant being monitored
Health authorities are on alert for a new covid variant which could cause a spring outbreak.
Yet more Geneva frontaliers
The number of cross border workers in Geneva is climbing and the first quarter of this year has seen the biggest jump since 2009.
Anti Vax conspiratory theorists raid Zurich meeting
Anti Vax activists barged into a Zurich Cantonal Council Meeting yesterday. They unfurled a banner that claimed vaccines caused ‘turbocancer’.
More trains and jams this holiday weekend
Swiss Federal Railways will be putting on more trains over the long holiday weekend – and the TCS is warning of long queues at the Gotthard Tunnel.
19 year old high schooler wins science prize
A 19-year-old high school student in canton Basel-Country has come up with a way to combat drug-resistant bacteria and has been awarded for it.
