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What is the risk of infection in the reopening of schools? Do the municipalities lack the capacity to handle the virus? Does Norway have enough infection control equipment? What are the consequences of the government’s coronation measures for the health system?
These are some of the cases about the crown crisis that the government, the ministries and the Health Directorate have excluded in public in recent weeks. This despite the fact that the Constitution establishes that “everyone has the right to access the documents of the state and the municipalities.”
Now the government is receiving increasing criticism that the opening that characterized Norway in the first days after the country’s closure has ended.
“For the sake of internal processing”
Many of the most important crown cases in Norway are dealt with by the government’s covid-19 selection and the biological preparedness emergency preparedness committee.
Most of the notes to the covid-19 committee are public.
In the first few weeks, the media gained access to reports from the Emergency Preparedness Committee on biological events. But the minutes of April 2, a few days after the government changed its strategy, are exempt from the public “for the sake of national security or the defense of the country.”
The complaint was also rejected because the Ministry believed that it could be exempted anyway “for the sake of internal preparation of the case.”
– I am very concerned that the emergency committee actually acts as an emergency committee to deal with the crisis. We totally depend on it. Then there will always be the type of evaluations, while other times it will be public, says Health Minister Bent Høie.
The opposition in Storting criticized the government last week when NRK spoke about how a report on society’s most vulnerable children was held for nine days.
