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For the first time since April, coronary heart disease in this country is higher than in Sweden, if we measure per capita.
Deputy Health Director Espen Nakstad says the reverse situation has a natural explanation. The two major local eruptions in Østfold and Bergen.
– If you have good control of these outbreaks, the numbers will go down again and we will be in a situation like a few weeks ago, says Nakstad.
– If we ignore these outbreaks, there are still low infection rates in Norway. The background figures also do not show any increase in hospital admissions.
Norway is testing more
He believes that the most important thing to read from the figures is that the Swedes are now beginning to control their infection situation.
– Now we are in a situation in which these countries are getting closer to each other. People behave the same way in both countries and take precautions. But it is still true that we have one death per day in Sweden, while in Norway there is one death per week, says Nakstad.
Remember that the situation was much worse in Norway than in Sweden until March 31 of this year. Even then, Norway had more recorded cases of infection than the Swedes.
– It is difficult to compare countries. Roughly as many Norwegians are screened as in Sweden, although Sweden has twice the population. This means that the proportion of people who test positive in Norway is significantly lower than in Sweden, Nakstad says.
Unwanted Norwegians?
Norway currently has entry quarantine for travelers from most EU and EEA countries, as well as various regions in Sweden and Denmark due to infection pressure.
Countries and regions that have more than 20 infected per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days can be marked in red according to this and other criteria.
Today, FHI suggested that two more countries and several regions in Sweden, Denmark and Finland will be in the red.
Frode Forland, director of infection control at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, tells NRK that it is not inconceivable that Norway will also be red-flagged by other countries if infection increases here at home.
– It can quickly lead to other countries not wanting Norwegians to cross the border. It has already happened in Finland. It happened when we confessed more than ten. Finland has the strictest requirements in Europe, Forland tells NRK.
It says that the criteria vary in different countries. While Norway operates with a limit of 20, many other countries have a limit value of 50.
– Different degrees of red
Forland believes, like Nakstad, that they will be able to overcome the two local outbreaks.
– Active work with isolation, tracking and testing is the strategy now. As long as we can do that, I think we are in control of the situation at the national level, says Forland.
– What does it mean if Norway turns red?
– Nothing happens, there will be no border that we cross by ourselves. Various regions of Sweden have been in and out of the red. This may also be the case in various regions of Norway. If infection rates in Norway are roughly the same or higher than in other countries, then this with border restrictions makes less sense and benefit, says Forland.
– Will Norway open its borders to other countries if we turn red?
– It will be continuously evaluated in relation to the situation in the future, but there are different degrees of red here. When I quickly look at the figures for Europe here, infection rates per 100,000 for two weeks in many countries are between 50 and 100. For some countries, more than 200. It’s a completely different level from 20, says Forland.
