Bird's Eye does not want to implement certification requirements

Since September 13th In Switzerland, a certificate is required when visiting a restaurant or fitness center. This is controlled by the Basel health department. Teams regularly check the companies. Now and then there are deficiencies in the implementation, as Anne Tschudin from the health department told the «Regionaljournal» from Radio SRF says. The majority, however, stick to the rules, buses have not yet been distributed – but the first event had to close.

This is the Bird’s Eye on the Kohlenberg. Like the «Basler Zeitung» already a few days after Reported that the extended certificate requirement came into effect in September, the jazz club continued to hold events without 3G control, each with 30 people. As Anne Tschudin from the health department told the newspaper in September, it was “a clear circumvention of the Covid-19 regulation”. You will contact those responsible. Now the had to close .

On September 23, the Jazz Club took a position in a press release: “With the certificate requirement, however, a limit has been exceeded for us that we can no longer go along with. We do not want to support the separation of society into people with or without a certificate and are not prepared to commission our staff to carry out this officially ordered control », write the operators.

The health department has closed the club without getting an idea of ​​the situation and checking the protection concept. “We very much regret this hasty decision, especially since it was made without prior dialogue,” it continues. One now wants to check legally whether the closure was lawful. At Telebasel’s request, the club officials did not want to take any further position.

Urs Blindenbacher from the Offbeat Jazz Festival Basel comments on the refusal of the Bird’s Eye to enforce the certificate requirement in an interview with Telebasel:

(Source: Telebasel)