Pharmacy only allows three customers into the store at one time + additional information

The president of the Zug Pharmacies Association wants to look after his employees - and isolated people - during the corona virus scare.

"A maximum of 3 customers in the pharmacy" says the note at the entrance to the Anklin pharmacy in Cham. Its owner, Martin Affentranger, wrote this message through his concern for his employees. Because if someone who had caught the corona virus patient stays in his pharmacy for more than 15 minutes, he would have to quarantine all the employees who were within two metres of the infected person during this time.

Affentranger, the president of the Zug Pharmacies Association, is adhering to the case definition by the Federal Office of Public Health. This sees a risk in people who meet at least one of the following criteria in the past 14 days:

• Recently travelled or stayed in an affected area, i.e. in China, South Korea, Singapore, Iran, Italy (Lombardy, Veneto, Piedmont).
• Close contact with a laboratory confirmed case.
  Close contact means:
  Contact of less than two metres and for more than 15 minutes;
  Living in the same household;
  Nursing or direct contact with respiratory secretions or body fluids without personal protective measures.
• Symptoms of an acute respiratory illness (cough, shortness of breath) and/or fever above 38 degrees body temperature.

This notice is hanging on the door to the Anklin pharmacy in Cham.

In addition, pharmacist Affentranger is also taking care of the people who are in quarantine because of the virus. The Kiss Network has already agreed "to look for people who can offer home delivery services in the sense of neighbourhood help," he says. On its Facebook page, the "Zug people help Zug people" network has also announced support services for people who are not allowed to leave their homes.