The number of new infections nearly doubled in a week – VG

However, the spread of infection in society remains low, believes FHI.

– The increase in the number of reported infected people is largely due to local outbreaks in Bergen, Fredrikstad and Sarpsborg, writes department director Line Vold at FHI in a press release.

In week 36, 728 cases of coronavirus were registered in Norway, compared to 377 in week 35. The infections registered in a week almost doubled.

Since the beginning of April, not as many people have been infected with the coronavirus as in week 36. In week 15 (April 6 to 12), 760 people were registered, according to the summary of VG.

Two of the largest eruptions Norway has seen

Last week, eight different crown buds were reported to FHI.

– The outbreaks in Bergen (more than 300 cases related to the student community) and Fredrikstad / Sarpsborg (more than 200 cases associated with a religious gathering) have been two of the largest local outbreaks in Norway since the beginning of the pandemic, he notes. FHI in the report.

Norway now has an increasing tendency to infection, according to VG figures. Cast also has 13 Norwegian municipalities.

– Despite outbreaks and local clusters, we do not see an increase in hospital admissions, intensive care unit admissions or deaths associated with covid-19. One explanation is that the infection in recent weeks has occurred primarily in younger people at low risk of a severe course. At the same time, extensive testing and infection monitoring is likely to help us discover more infected people with milder symptoms, Vold writes in FHI.

Also note:

• Most young people: The average age of all those registered as infected since the outbreak began is 41 years. But last week the median was 27 years old. People in their 20s were at their peak of infection in both July and August.
• The proportion of positive tests has increased: How much infection you find, of course, depends on how much you test and who gets tested. FHI notes, however, that the proportion of positive tests also nearly doubled from week 35 to week 36, from 0.44% to 0.86%.

• Most infected in Norway: FHI does not have a general description of where all the new cases were actually infected. But they have it for 607 people (55 percent of those infected in the last two weeks). 11% of them had been infected abroad and 89% in Norway.

Norway at the level of red infection

The European Agency for Infection Control ECDC currently has Norway at 21.1 infected per 100,000 inhabitants in total during the last 14 days. FHI has counted on it too, landing at 20.3. Therefore, Norway is at the red infection level and above the infection limit that we have for foreign countries.

• What does the red infection level mean? There is a limit set by the Norwegian authorities for the countries that must be colored yellow and red. If you travel to a red country, you must be quarantined upon return. The requirement to stay in yellow is that the country must have less than 20 infected per 100,000 inhabitants in total in the last 14 days. However, the fact that Norway is now crossing this border has no consequences for domestic travel. And it doesn’t have to have consequences for your trip abroad, either. Each country has its own requirements.