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by saiya-jin 2309 days ago
> Cancelled are the Geneva Auto Show (600k+ guests), Basel Fasnacht (carnival), and many other popular events (concerts and sporting events) with more than 1000 people.

This ain't true based on few web checks, for now they decided to go on (although I believe they will cancel eventually as cases ramp up in following days). I wanted to go like every year since its in my backyard and it takes 20 min bus ride, but not under these conditions.

Sources: [1][2]

[1] https://www.thelocal.ch/20200228/switzerland-bans-all-major-... [2] google etc.

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Of course it's cancelled, Berset put 1000 people as a hard maximum with events with below 1000 people attending only allowed under risk assessment measures (ie. they might even cancel events below that threshold).
Of course it is cancelled.

The federal government announced all events with more than 1000 people involved cancelled till 15th of March. It just cannot go on.