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This is stated by the communications director Gro Tvedt Andersen of the Norwegian Football Association in a text message to NTB:
“The medical team of the men’s national team A has contacted the local health authorities and they have given their approval for the exit. The infected player remains isolated in Oslo.”
Norwegian covid-19 regulations state that “people in quarantine for infection may exceptionally use public transport to reach a suitable quarantine place.”
Such trips must be approved by the municipal doctor. According to NFF, Oslo’s head of infection control has given the national team the green light to go home.
Problems after infection
The national team team and support apparatus ended up in quarantine after Vice Captain Omar Elabdellaoui was diagnosed with a corona infection before the weekend. He sent the Norwegian team in a real squeeze.
An hour before departure for Romania on Saturday, the national team was informed that the Norwegian Health Directorate in a meeting with the NFF had clearly stated that it would be a violation of the regulations if someone with a quarantine obligation went on a trip. business abroad.
The parties disagreed on the interpretation of the rules. After a chaotic day, where Health Minister Bent Høie (H) was also in the field, Norway did not travel. The national league game scheduled for Sunday in Bucharest has been canceled.
Players of the national team react to the fact that they are denied going to Romania under controlled conditions, but are allowed to fly home separately through Europe.
– We will now travel home on the scheduled flight tomorrow. Norwegian authorities accept this, while saying no to us quarantining separately from everyone else on charter flights to Romania, Stefan Johansen, Martin Ødegaard and Joshua King said on the national team captains team on Saturday. at night.
Home to ten different countries
Noted lawyer John Christian Elden is stunned by the player’s plans to go abroad while they are in quarantine.
“The three on the captain’s team will likely be reported, fined, and kicked out of Gardermoen if, while in quarantine, they travel there tomorrow. It is not recommended.” Elden wrote Twitter late on Saturday night.
When he learns from Nettavisen that the national team has been approved to leave, he thinks it seems inconsistent.
“But it is the health authorities that assess the specific risk in each individual case. Aothers are fined in the same situation, and I would not want to sit on the same plane no matter how much dispensation is given when a person is quarantined after close contact with an infected person»Elden writes in a text message to the newspaper.
NFF is considering putting together a “national emergency team”
There were 19 foreign professionals on Lars Lagerbäck’s squad for the matches against Romania and Austria. These will now travel to a total of ten different countries: England, Scotland, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Turkey and Russia.
It is unclear what will happen to the away game against Austria on Wednesday. The NFF has stated that they are considering forming a “national emergency team” with players who have not been quarantined.
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