These are the new measures – VG

The case is being updated.

– Stay home as long as possible. Have as little social contact as possible with others. Solberg said when he appeared before the Storting on Thursday.

The prime minister said the measures they launched last week are not enough.

– We do not have time to wait to see if the measures we introduced last week are sufficient. We must act now to avoid a new closure.

These are the new measures:

• Everyone should stay home as long as possible.
• We must stay at least 2 meters from people in risk groups.
• Maximum 20 people in private events and 50 in indoor events
• Unnecessary domestic travel should be avoided
• National bar stop at 24:00
• Requirements for a full test certificate are entered for all red countries
• People arriving without a permanent residence or employer must stay at a corona hotel and take the test for a period of up to 10 days.

The latest rule change means that a grandmother or someone else can visit Norway, but the first part of the stay must be in a hotel.

The government’s goal is for the infection to be reduced enough to make Christmas as normal as possible, VG reports. The government will make a new evaluation of the measures before Christmas.

– The situation is very serious. If development continues in the same way, we can experience the same thing that more and more countries in Europe are doing. The fear is that the health service will collapse, says Solberg.

Solberg says we now have to leave the holidays, in part because the combination of alcohol and many people has caused several major outbreaks:

– Some claim that previous drinking stops will lead to private parties, and the answer is: now there must be an end to the parties for a while.

The police will also enforce infection control more actively in the future.

Increasingly demanding infection monitoring

– In areas around cities and in cities, the infection is large and is beginning to approach stage 2a – TISK’s work is under pressure, says Solberg.

TISK is an abbreviation for Testing, Isolation, Infection Detection, and Quarantine. One reason for the stress is, among other things, that people have many close contacts, leading to demands for infection screening.

More recommendations are introduced

The Norwegian Health Directorate’s recommendations to the government were released Thursday morning.

Earlier on Thursday, VG received confirmation from central sources that several of the measures now presented by the Prime Minister would be introduced.

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New measures in highly infected regions

The government is adding several measures that municipalities with high infection pressure should consider introducing. The Norwegian Health Directorate and the National Institute of Public Health will assess exactly which measures are relevant in different regions of the country. This includes:

• Stop at grassroots adult sports
• Consider stopping grassroots sports for kids and teens under 20.
• Additional restrictions on restaurants, such as a full stop or closing at 10 p.m.
• More restrictions on the size of multiple events
• Recommendation on the use of masks in taxis when their use is recommended in public transport
• Red level in secondary schools. Middle schools should prepare for the red level
• Two meters away for indoor physical activity
• Mandatory home office
• Stronger recommendation to avoid public transportation.
• Closing or restricting businesses and activities that have great potential for the spread of infection, such as swimming pools, gyms, sports halls, bingo halls, museums, libraries, event venues without fixed seating, and other public places where many people gather indoors .

Work in progress:

• The Norwegian Directorate of Health is tasked with investigating whether to recommend or introduce a national test at the national level before employees go to work in nursing homes and nursing homes, and the use of face masks in those places.
• The Norwegian Health Directorate is tasked with updating professional advice that will deal with vulnerable groups in health and care services. The Norwegian Health Directorate will also prepare guidelines and guidance material to ensure necessary services for recipients of services living at home and their families.
• The Norwegian Health Directorate is tasked with reviewing the guidelines on infection control in public transport and taking stricter measures. This also applies to school buses.

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The infection situation in Norway

After a fall with a slow and moderate spread of infection, FHI refers to the spread of infection as increasing significantly in your latest weekly report. In the last 24 hours, there have been 624 new cases of infection in Norway, one of the days with the most new infections so far during the pandemic, the VG summary shows. 72 municipalities have an increasing tendency to infection.

79 percent more cases were reported last week than the previous week, they write in their latest weekly report. At the same time, they estimate in their model that 4 out of 10 cases of infection are now found, compared with 1 in 10 in March. Therefore, many more infected are now discovered than during the first wave of the pandemic.

Prime Minister Erna Solberg will give a press conference on the situation at 11:45 am. Also present will be Health Director Bjørn Guldvog at the Norwegian Health Directorate and Director Camilla Stoltenberg at FHI.

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