These are the countries to be added to the quarantine list in Switzerland by January 15th.

The Federal Public Health Office (BAG) made this announcement Wednesday, Sda writes.

The next EU country Denmark will also be “banor” on the list from January 15th. Likewise, from an area of Italy and Germany are, from January 15th, on the Swiss quarantinen list, albinfo.ch conveys. In Italy it's the Venice region, and in Germany, the state of Saxony. The Friuli-Vaneia Giulia region in Italy, which was so far, will be removed from the list Thursday.

The European countries on this list are: Great Britain, Sweden, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, San Marino, Andorra and Georgia. In neighboring countries such as Austria and France, on the other hand, there are currently no quarantine zones.

Outside of Europe, Panama will be on the quarantine list from January 15th, and Belize will be concealed from Thursday. Listed are also US and South Africa. Anyone entering Switzerland from listed countries must remain in quarantine for ten days.

At the end of October, there were over sixty countries and numerous areas in all nearby Switzerland. In view of the high number of cases in Switzerland, the Federal Council had decided to radically change the course, broadcast albinfo.ch.

Since then, the Swiss government has placed on the risk list only states or areas, whose 14-day value for 100,000 inhabitants is more than 60 higher than Switzerland. On Wednesday, this value in Switzerland was about 523 cases.