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The new 700 people have visited the nightclub on October 8, 9 and 10, the municipality writes in a press release.
The municipal chief physician, Tove Røsstad, informed Dagbladet on Wednesday that 100 guests and employees who were at the nightclub on October 7 have been quarantined. So there are now around 800 people who are covered by the quarantine obligation after staying in Little London, or defined as close contact.
– People who have been in the disco these days, and have not been notified by the infection control office, are asked to contact the crown’s telephone number, the municipality encourages.
I think more infectious viruses circulate
Reach increases
On Wednesday, seven visitors had been diagnosed with the coronavirus. On Thursday, four new cases of contagion were confirmed in relation to the disco.
– All four are in their 20s, are nationally infected by known close contact and are part of the group of infection involving the Lille London nightclub, the municipality writes.
Trondheim has seen an increase in infection in the past few days and 30 people tested positive in the past eight days. 24 of them are linked to the infection cluster, which includes Little London, and which the municipality believes is based on a possible more infectious variant of the virus.
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Possibly more contagious
The municipal chief told Dagbladet on Wednesday that the municipality became suspicious after more than they had experienced tested positive, and people also tested positive faster than normal.
It also appears that some of the infected are not defined as close contacts of an infected person.
– In relation to the outbreak here, we saw pretty quickly that it doesn’t have to be as close to contact as we’ve seen it before, Røsstad said.
The municipal chief doctor told Adressa on Thursday that the four new cases of infection reinforce the theory that it is a more contagious variant in circulation.
Røsstad says that this same outbreak also has ramifications, among other things, on the ISFiT student festival and a workplace, and that there are therefore almost 1000 people under quarantine in Trondheim in total.
The National Institute of Public Health helps the municipality of Trondheim examine samples of the virus to see if there is a new variant it faces.
FHI department director Line Vold told Dagbladet that his lab tests virus samples from across Norway to monitor viruses that are circulating across the country.
– For example, to be able to see if there has been a mutation in the virus that could make it more contagious. This work is being carried out now, but the Trondheim tests are not finished at this time, he said.
