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HIGH INFECTION PRESSURE: In Oslo, the infection trend has increased in the last three weeks. Here, 314 new cases of infection were registered on Friday. Photo: Tore Kristiansen, VG
905 new cases of infection were registered in Norway on Friday. This is the second highest number recorded in a day since the start of the pandemic.
On January 5, a preliminary infection record was set in this country, with 928 new cases of infection recorded (adjusted from 935) in one day.
On Friday this week, 905 cases of infection were recorded in Norway, 255 cases more than the average of 650 in the previous seven days.
Last Friday 690 cases of contagion were registered in this country. The proportion of positive tests last week was 2.1 percent.
On Wednesday 10 March, 685 new cases of infection were registered in Norway, while the number on Thursday was 872. Overall, fewer people register as infected on holidays and weekends than on weekdays.
A total of 78,946 cases of infection have been confirmed in Norway since the start of the pandemic.
– We were below this second wave in late January, early February. It has now risen for three weeks nationwide, and if this continues, we are in full blast into a third wave of infection. There’s no question about it, Deputy Health Director Espen Rostrup Nakstad told VG on Thursday morning.
The national infection trend has been increasing since February 24, according to VG Summary. 50 municipalities now have an increasing tendency to infection, including Oslo.
On Friday, 314 new cases of the coronavirus were registered here in Oslo, according to figures from the municipality itself. There are 71 more cases than the daily average of the previous seven days, which is 243.
On Thursday, the infection rate in Oslo was 352, while on Monday it was 236. Last Friday, the infection rate was 226.
– Now there is a very high infection pressure in the city, in all the districts. We see a huge increase in the number of people getting so sick that they are admitted to the hospital, health advisor Robert Steen (Labor) wrote in an email to VG on Friday.
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The figures reported by the municipalities themselves may differ from the GBV figures themselves. We retrieve the figures directly from the Communicable Disease Notification System (MSIS), which records cases based on where people are registered and do not necessarily live.
On average, it takes one to two days from when a test result is ready until it is registered in the infectious disease reporting system (MSIS). Therefore, the figures can give a misleading picture of the infection situation in the last days, since it does not appear when the sample has been taken, only when it has been registered.
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