The Federal Council wants the cantons to consult more people about the vaccination. Many cantons, especially Bern, don’t even think about it.
the essentials in brief
- The Federal Council wants to convince people of the vaccination with personal consultations.
- The idea does not meet with approval from the cantons, and Bern even considers it to be absolutely pointless.
- Instead, most of the cantons prefer to continue with their previous strategy.
With a final vaccination offensive, the Federal Council wants to lift Switzerland out of the pandemic. The target redefined since yesterday: 93 percent of the over 65s and 80 of the 18 to 65 year olds should be vaccinated so that the measures can be dropped.
However, just under a million Swiss have to be vaccinated first. The Federal Council wants to achieve this with a national vaccination week, additional vaccination buses and consultations with unvaccinated people by specialist staff.
Bern clearly rejects the federal strategy
But the government was vague about the last point. Because the federal government expects the cantons to change their minds for those who have not been vaccinated. How they implement this remains to be seen. True to the motto: “We pay, you do.”
That doesn’t go down well with the cantons. Bern, of all places, even rejected the project from the Federal Palace: “The canton of Bern does not plan to recruit counselors. We do not consider this measure to be expedient, ”says Naomi Brunner of the Bern Health Department, dismissing Berset’s suggestion.
“No point in letting the untrained hit the population”
Competent health care professionals such as doctors or pharmacists would do everything possible to get people to vaccinate. “We see no point in recruiting untrained personnel, giving them a crash course on why vaccination makes sense, and then letting it loose on the population.”
Such a measure would be more likely to meet with resistance from the unvaccinated population and certainly would not have a positive effect. Instead, Bern does not want to deviate from its current vaccination strategy despite federal orders. “We have countless in-patient vaccination offers, plus a vaccination truck and other mobile teams are on the road in communities and schools,” says Brunner.
“Around 1000-1500 people are vaccinated for the first time every day. However, it is absolutely impossible to predict how long this trend will continue. ” You can feel that the demand for vaccinations is decreasing. The current vaccination rate can only be maintained with more and more effort.
Zurich is not in the mood either
At the moment, 71.5 percent of those in Bern who can be vaccinated have received at least one vaccination. Zurich reports a similar number, where currently 77 percent of all people aged 12 and over have been vaccinated at least once.
It sounds a little quieter from the banks of the Limmat, but Zurich basically shares the attitude of Bern. One wants to examine the extent to which Zurich wants to participate in the national vaccination offensive beyond its own commitment. “The concrete implementation of any measures, especially for the National Vaccination Week, requires an agreement,” says the health department cautiously.
Basel-Stadt also considers the Federal Council’s vaccination target to be “very ambitious,” writes spokeswoman Anne Tschudin. Basically, however, the vaccination offensive is welcomed at the border triangle. One wants to try again to exhaust all possibilities and to make efforts to increase the vaccination rate. The Federal Council’s proposal for the vaccination talks should also be checked before implementation.
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