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Oslo should follow advice on stricter measures so that the infection does not spread to neighboring municipalities, Høie said at a news conference on Monday.
The Oslo City Council has said they will wait to see how the infection develops in the coming days.
Høie is very concerned about the infection situation in the capital, partly because many have an unknown route of infection.
– I hope that the municipality will follow the advice of the health authorities, he says.
Høie refers to Bergen, which has worked hard to reverse the development of the infection.
– Now it is Oslo who must take responsibility, says the Minister of Health.
19 municipalities
Later on Monday, Oslo will report on new measures in the capital.
The experience of the rest of Europe shows that capitals and large cities are driving the spread of the coronavirus, Høie says.
On Monday evening, 19 municipalities around Oslo will participate in an urgent meeting with the Minister of Health following the recent development of infections in the capital.
Høie has asked the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) and the Norwegian Health Directorate to consider new measures for the surrounding municipalities.
Several municipalities from the Oslo labor and housing market region will participate in a digital gathering. In addition to Oslo, this applies to the municipalities of Bærum, Asker, Lillestrøm, Nordre Follo, Lørenskog, Nittedal, Nesodden, Rælingen, Ås, Lier, Frogn, Nes, Vestby, Enebakk, Aurskog-Høland, Lunner, Gjerdrum, Hole and .
– We have learned
At Monday’s press conference, it was revealed that the government is discontinuing the project with the so-called Infect Stop app. Instead, they will develop a new solution based on the Apple and Google framework.
– Norway took the opportunity to leave early to try to set up an infection app. Unfortunately, we did not get that job. We have learned from that. And now we move forward, said the Minister of Health at the crown press conference.
Health authorities were on the ground when they launched the app called “Stop Infection” in mid-April. During the first 24 hours, it was downloaded by a million Norwegians and was expected to significantly simplify the job of tracking infections. Never happened.
Instead, the data inspection stopped the application, which believed the utility was insufficiently documented, and prohibited the processing of privacy information in the application.
Retrying
Now the Minister of Health will try again, following the advice of the NIPH, which led the work of stopping the infection.
– We need even more measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Therefore, the government has decided to create a new application based on the international framework of Google and Apple. This app is for infection tracking only, it doesn’t store data centrally, and is therefore less intrusive on privacy than Smittestopp, Høie says.
May be ready before New Years
The development of the new application will now be put out to tender. NIPH estimates that it will take eight weeks to develop it.
– The aim is for the application to be ready by the end of the year, but we will use the time necessary to ensure good information security and good privacy protection, says Høie.
The authorities’ goal was for 60 percent of the population to use the Stop Infection app. As of early June, 1.57 million Norwegians had downloaded it, but active users were then around 15 percent of the population over 15 years of age.
It has cost up to NOK 40 million to develop the Smittestopp app, FHI stated at Monday’s press conference.
19 admitted
On Monday, 19 patients were admitted to Norwegian hospitals. That is the same number as Friday.
None of the hospitalized patients receive respiratory treatment, according to the Norwegian Health Directorate overview of hospitalized patients with corona.
14 of the patients are hospitalized in Helse sør-øst, while Helse Vest has five hospitalized. There are no patients admitted to Helse nord or Helse Midt-Norge.
