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The case is being updated.
Aftenposten reproduces the new estimates from a report published by FHI on Saturday night. Until last week, health authorities estimated that between 34,600 and 43,500 people had been infected with corona in Norway.
However, in the report, which is dated September 1, the estimate of the number of infected since the pandemic began in February has increased by 60 percent. FHI now believes that between 55,000 and 73,000 people have been infected with the coronavirus.
The background for the new estimates is new knowledge based on the 11,000 people who tested positive for COVID-19.
– So far we have assumed that the virus spread fairly evenly between the different age groups. When we look at the test data so far, we now see that some age groups are overrepresented, while others are underrepresented, says biostatistics professor Arnoldo Frigessi at the University of Oslo and director of the Big Insight Center.
The professor now believes that health authorities can no longer assume that the infection is spreading in society according to the demographic pattern.
