"The rest of Switzerland will certainly do what is now happening in Ticino," Koch told SRF. Meaning: The measures that the canton of Ticino has introduced due to the spread of the Coronavirus might be extended to other cantons as well. A closure of cinemas, concert halls, fitness centers as well as, of course, hockey arenas thus seems only to be a matter of time.
"The wave has now reached Switzerland," Daniel Koch explains. It is now a question of protecting the most vulnerable groups, the elderly and the chronically ill: "For them, the virus is dangerous."
Whereas the Federal Council has set up another press conference for tomorrow, officials of the Swiss hockey clubs will have a telephone conference this morning and decide about the fate of the current championship. The most likely outcome: They will put an end to the season before the Federal Council does.
