From the plague of 1720 to the coronavirus

The Covid-19 epidemic is growing in Switzerland. This is not the first time the country has prepared for an epidemic. Cécile Guérin takes you back in time. Just 300 years ago, in 1720, a plague epidemic broke out in the port of Marseille. The Geneva authorities issued the first regulations designed to prevent the epidemic, which was stopped before Geneva. The similarities with the situation in 2020 are astonishing.