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Zurich to open two new vaccination centres for booster jabs

Authorities in Zurich will open two new vaccination centres at the beginning of December to help administer booster jabs.

Published: 24 November 2021 17:57 CET

A person waits to get a vaccine in Switzerland for Covid. Photo: Photo by Valentin FLAURAUD / AFP

A person waits to get a vaccine in Switzerland for Covid. Photo: Photo by Valentin FLAURAUD / AFP

The two centres will be located at Zurich-Oerlikon (Therese-Giehse-Strasse 6) and Bülach (Bülacher Stadthalle) and will be available to anyone who wants to get a booster vaccine.

These will be open from 8am to 8pm seven days a week and will together have a capacity of 3,000 jabs a day.

Covid booster vaccinations in Switzerland: What you need to know

The existing vaccination centres in Affoltern am Albis, Triemli, Uster and Winterthur will also extend their opening hours to assist with the expected surge in people wanting a booster shot.

Each of the canton’s vaccination centres will now offer booster jabs, along with 450 GPs and 100 participating pharmacies.

Switzerland had been under fire for dragging its feet on the booster jab campaign, with some Swiss residents trying to cross the border into neighbouring countries in order to secure a third shot.

READ MORE: Can Swiss get a booster vaccination in Germany?

Booster jabs for people aged 65 and over and those in risk groups have been administered in Switzerland since November 22nd.

UPDATED: How can I get my Covid booster shot in Switzerland?

Peak Swiss medical agency Swissmedic on Tuesday approved booster vaccinations for everyone aged 16 and over.

To be eligible for a booster jab, your second shot of the vaccine must have been at least six months ago.

READ MORE: Switzerland approves Covid-19 boosters for everyone over 16

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Why have Zurich's compost collectors become notorious?

The self-proclaimed goal of an organisation called Freedom Priority (IF Freiheit in German, Priorité Liberté in French, and Priorità Libertà in Italian) is to fight “for the freedom of citizens and against unnecessary regulations imposed by the State.”

To this end, the group gives out an annual award, called the ‘Rusty Paragraph’, for “the stupidest law or the most senseless intervention of the year.”

Among prior winners are the 10 pm curfew for cowbells in Aargau and a ban on eating raclette in cable cars (the latter has since been revoked).

READ ALSO: Switzerland re-legalises raclette and fondue in cable cars

And this years’s winner is…

…the compost police, an official post introduced in the city of Zurich!

The new waste management ordinance calls for all organic waste to be deposited in containers.

“People who compost themselves must fill out a form to be released from this obligation and the resulting tax. The existence of the compost heap in the private garden is then controlled by city employees,” the organisation explained in a press release.

While this rule may sound like an overabundance of fastidiousness, waste management is not a laughing matter in Switzerland.

The Swiss take proper garbage disposal seriously — so seriously, in fact, that various communities hire inspectors for the unenviable job of finding improperly tossed-out trash.

Various examples prove that not recycling or disposing of one’s garbage in a municipally-approved manner can result in hefty fines.

READ ALSO: Why the Swiss government rummages through your garbage

The last such incident happened – coincidentally — also in Zurich, where a clueless American threw a carton box into a ‘regular’ trash can, instead of recycling it.

At the time of this incident, the offender had not yet received his fine, but it could have been as high as 320 francs.

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