Federal Act
on Foreign Nationals and Integration
(Foreign Nationals and Integration Act, FNIA)¹

¹ In or­der to en­sure the en­force­ment of re­mov­al or ex­pul­sion or ex­pul­sion from Switzer­land un­der Art­icle 66a or 66a^bis SCC¹⁸¹ or Art­icle 49a or 49a^bis MCC¹⁸², for­eign na­tion­als are re­quired to un­der­go a COV­ID-19 test if this is ne­ces­sary in or­der to com­ply with the entry re­quire­ments of the per­son's nat­ive coun­try or coun­try of ori­gin or of the com­pet­ent Dub­lin State or the re­quire­ments of the air­line con­cerned.

² The com­pet­ent au­thor­it­ies shall in­form the per­son con­cerned in ad­vance about this re­quire­ment and about the pos­sib­il­ity of the com­puls­ory con­duct of tests un­der para­graph 3.

³ If the per­son con­cerned re­fuses to un­der­go a COV­ID-19 test, the com­pet­ent au­thor­it­ies for the en­force­ment of re­mov­al or ex­pul­sion or ex­pul­sion from Switzer­land may con­duct the test against the per­son's will, un­less de­port­a­tion can be en­forced by oth­er less strin­gent means. While con­duct­ing the test, no force may be used that could en­danger the health of the per­son con­cerned. The com­puls­ory con­duct of COV­ID-19 tests is not per­mit­ted in the case of chil­dren and young per­sons un­der the age of 15.

⁴ The COV­ID-19 tests shall be con­duc­ted by med­ic­al per­son­nel who have been spe­cific­ally trained for the pur­pose. They shall use the least in­vas­ive form of test suit­able for the per­son con­cerned. If the per­son­nel take the view that con­duct­ing the test could harm the health of the per­son con­cerned, they shall not con­duct the test.