Federal Act
on Controlling Communicable Human Diseases
(Epidemics Act, EpidA)

¹ The com­pet­ent can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies shall or­der the meas­ures in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 33–38.

² The com­pet­ent fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies shall sup­port the can­tons in identi­fy­ing and no­ti­fy­ing per­sons, in par­tic­u­lar per­sons trav­el­ling on in­ter­na­tion­al trans­port ser­vices.

³ When or­der­ing meas­ures, the per­sons con­cerned must be giv­en an ex­plan­a­tion of why the meas­ures are be­ing ordered and how long they are ex­pec­ted to ap­ply.

⁴ The meas­ures may only ap­ply for as long as is ne­ces­sary to pre­vent the spread of a com­mu­nic­able dis­ease and to avert a ser­i­ous risk to the health of oth­er per­sons. They must be reg­u­larly re­viewed.