This report has been written as part of the research collaboration project Fighting pandemics with enhanced risk communication: Messages, compliance and vulnerability during the COVID-19 outbreak (PAN-FIGHT). Project initiator and coordinator is The University of Stavanger, and main project partner institutions are the University of Geneva, Mid-Sweden University, King's College London and DIALOGIK gGmbH. PAN-FIGHT is funded by the Research Council of Norway and runs from August 2020 to September 2022.The Switzerland report has been reviewed by Claudine Burton-Jeangros.1 "The Federal Council is made up of seven members, each of which heads a government department. Decisions are made jointly. The Federal Chancellor supports the government. (…) The Federal Council is the highest executive authority in the country. It comprises seven members, who are elected by the Federal Assembly. The Federal Council's tasks are set out in the Federal Constitution" Admin.ch. (n.d.). The Federal Council. Retrieved February 25, 2021 from https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/federal-council.html.