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

¹ The fed­er­al and can­ton­al bod­ies re­spons­ible for im­ple­ment­ing this Act may dis­close to each oth­er per­son­al data, in­clud­ing data on health, which they re­quire in or­der to carry out the tasks as­signed to them un­der this Act.

² In par­tic­u­lar the fol­low­ing data may be dis­closed:

a.

sur­name, first name, ad­dress, date of birth and oc­cu­pa­tion;

b.

de­tails of travel routes, places of stay and con­tacts with per­sons, an­im­als and ob­jects;

c.

res­ults of med­ic­al tests;

d.

res­ults of epi­demi­olo­gic­al in­vest­ig­a­tions;

e.

de­tails of be­long­ing to a spe­cif­ic risk cat­egory;

f.

de­tails of meas­ures to pre­vent and com­bat a com­mu­nic­able dis­ease.

³ The FOPH and the can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for im­ple­ment­ing this Act may dis­close per­son­al data, in­clud­ing data on health, which are re­quired to pre­vent the spread of a com­mu­nic­able dis­ease to the fol­low­ing per­sons and au­thor­it­ies:

a.

doc­tors re­quired to treat com­mu­nic­able dis­eases;

b.

can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies that carry out tasks re­lated to de­tect­ing, mon­it­or­ing, pre­vent­ing and con­trolling com­mu­nic­able dis­eases;

c.

oth­er fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies, in­so­far as it is ne­ces­sary in or­der to im­ple­ment the le­gis­la­tion ap­plied by those au­thor­it­ies.