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In Switzerland, all shops, museums, zoos and adventure parks are to reopen from March 1st.

Meetings with 15 people should be allowed outdoors, the Swiss government set the course on Wednesday.

The government wants to make a definitive decision in a week.

"We have a positive starting position," said Health Minister Alain Berset.

The goal now is to address gradual easing.

In future there will be more permitted sports and cultural activities for children and young people up to the age of 18.

From April, cultural and sporting events with an audience are once again conceivable in a narrowly limited framework, as well as indoor sports or the opening of restaurant terraces.

The Minister of Health praised the discipline of the population.

Their behavior led to a halving of the numbers within a month.

However, restaurants should remain closed.

The obligation to work from home will also be maintained, it said.

If the epidemiological development is favorable and the vaccination rate is higher, further relaxations should come into force at the beginning of each month, "in order to give more space to social and economic life", it said.

The well-known hygiene rules such as the limitation of the number of customers and mask requirement apply.

A large number of tests are also an essential part of the strategy in order to detect asymptomatic cases of corona infection.

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