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On Tuesday afternoon, the summary by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health shows that infection has been detected in at least one passenger on 36 flights in Norway since September 4. 24 of the affected departures may be linked to Oslo.
– This has been my concern since March. This has been the infection control in Gardermoen considering that we are a capital city and that a lot of planes come here, Councilor Raymond Johansen tells Dagbladet and continues:
– For example, you may have been in a country with a high infection before you took the train into the city center of Oslo and disappeared. When, in such a case, you may have received some fuzzy quarantine provision that you only moderately relate to, then it’s scary.
Things and quarantine
Health authorities have set up a testing station in Gardermoen where visitors have the opportunity to voluntarily complete a crowning test.
The government requires that everyone traveling to Norway from red and gray countries be quarantined for ten days. However, in mid-September, the National Institute of Public Health reviewed a new study that found that many violate the quarantine obligation.
– Having good control in Gardermoen is important to how we manage to deal with the infection here. If we are not in control there, then we are at the mercy of the infection regime in another country, says Councilor Johansen.
Low risk
Preben Aavitsland, chief physician at the National Institute of Public Health, says infected passengers became infected even before boarding the planes.
– On the flights in question, there have been infected people who have become infected before getting on board, Aavitsland tells Dagbladet and continues:
– Most of the trips have been to Oslo, and some from Oslo, but the list says nothing about where the people in question were infected. Most were infected abroad before traveling to Norway.
Aavitsland says that on flights, as in the rest of society, there may be people who do not know they are infected and that therefore there may be dark figures regarding cases of infection on airplanes in Norway.
However, the risk of infection during actual flights is very low.
– Experience is that the risk of infection during flights is very low. In practice, only those who are close to the infected person can become infected, and even for these the risk is low.
– natural
Health advisor Robert Steen tells Dagbladet that it is natural for Oslo to be overrepresented in the FHI overview.
– It’s natural. Oslo is, by that measure, the largest municipality in the country. Oslo is as big as Bergen, Stavanger, Tromsø, Trondheim and Drammen put together. In addition, we are the capital of the country. So it’s natural for this to become a very concentrated area, says Steen, adding:
– We were the epicenter of crown development in Norway in March and April. It was here that it first emerged and developed. This is where most people live, and this is where people live the tightest, so it’s a completely natural situation, Steen tells Dagbladet and states that the city council is not considering closing the city.
