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On Monday, the principal will meet with student leaders to find out what happened at last week’s student party.
Director of Communications Geir Mikalsen. Photo: Alice bratshaug
On Sunday, the Norwegian School of Management (NHH) announced that 24 new students had been infected with the coronavirus. Even then, communications director Geir Mikalsen announced that there could be more.
As of Monday afternoon, it is clear that 19 new people have been reported infected. Thus, a total of 58 NHH students have been diagnosed with the infection. Now the university is taking new steps.
– What we are doing now is closing all physical education. Students will be offered digital instruction, Mikalsen tells BT.
It’s empty at NHH on Monday morning. Photo: Alice bratshaug
Traces of infection
He has just come out of a two-hour meeting with the rectory.
– Despite the fact that physical education is closed, we have chosen to keep the campus open so that those who want can go to the reading room.
The communications director says the decision was made in consultation with the Bergen Township Infection Control Office and the National Institute of Public Health (NIPH). When BT was at school Monday morning, the hallways were empty.
On Sunday, BT wrote that it is being investigated whether the large outbreak of infection may originate from a party that the club and the cultural committee of the student association held in Kjelleren at NHH on Monday night.
– Some of the infected were at this event, but we cannot go into more details about the infection tracking, says Mikalsen, referring to the infection control office.
A total of 58 NHH students are infected with the coronavirus. Photo: Alice bratshaug
Go meet with student leaders
Chancellor Øystein Thøgersen says this is an unfortunate situation for NHH.
– Especially for the sick and close to the sick.
He believes there will be reports of more infected in the coming days.
– But we hope the situation calms down.
On Monday afternoon, he will have a meeting with the leaders of the student associations to go over what happened at last week’s event.
– We have been told that the plan with the infection control guard did not work as it should. Alcohol was also consumed where alcohol should not have been drunk.
Rector Øystein Thøgersen. Photo: Rune Sævig
Announces press conference
The Bergen Municipality has not responded to BTS’s inquiries about the infection outbreak at NHH on Monday morning.
Now they announce that there will be a press conference in the afternoon. The press conference will be attended by Councilor Roger Valhammer, Health Councilor Beate Husa, Medical Director Trond Egil Hansen, and Head of Infection Control, Dr. Karina Koller Løland.
Mikalsen at NHH says that among the 58 who are infected, no one is seriously ill.
– Of course, some students are anxious, while others think what happens.
Many of the students have such mild symptoms that they can continue the lessons. The school has a total of 3400 students.
– Of course, it is a sad situation to be at the beginning of studies, he says.
