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On Sunday morning, most of the Norwegian national team went home, after approval from the Oslo municipal doctor. They were approved to return home, provided they complete the quarantine when they return home.
TV 2 sportscaster Mina Finstad Berg. Photo: Daniel Sannum Lauten / TV 2
– What happens when you leave the country is the responsibility of the individual, and it is the laws and regulations of the country where you live that must be followed. Norwegian municipal or state authorities, together with others, cannot monitor or sanction violations of Norwegian or other countries’ quarantine regulations abroad, assistant health director Espen Nakstad tells TV 2.
When players land in countries like England, Germany and Turkey, they will be subject to other laws and regulations than those that apply in Norway, and as Nakstad says, they could not be punished. But it is also a moral aspect.
– If Norwegian players break quarantine, it means they have traveled home under a false flag, so to speak. This is a problem, says Mina Finstad Berg, TV 2 expert.
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The Norwegian national team squad has had a case of corona infection, by Omar Elabdellaoui. Therefore, the Norwegian team was not allowed to travel to Romania to play the Nations League match that was scheduled for Sunday, despite the fact that all the players have repeatedly tested negative.
This is how Deputy Health Director Espen Nakstad explains why Ødegaard, Braut and company. get home to Spain and Germany, when they were not allowed to travel to Bucharest to play matches:
– The rules of article 5 of the covid-19 regulation give the municipal doctor the opportunity to approve the trip by public transport to his own place of residence to carry out the quarantine there.
– Norwegian law does not apply abroad and the implementation of quarantine when you come to a place of residence abroad is subject to the regulations of each country, explains Nakstad.
– The purpose of the municipal doctor’s approval is to help ensure that the quarantine can be carried out in a suitable place, including the place of residence. What is approved is an infection-free trip to the place of residence, not a quarantine exemption.
– Sends a pretty bad signal
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Therefore, there are still questions about what guidelines national team players are subject to when they leave Norway. However, Finstad Berg is clear about what signal effect it will have if Norway’s best men break the quarantine.
– It will send out a rather unfortunate signal if Norwegian national team players break a quarantine imposed on live television, he says.
– Especially now that infection rates are increasing and in Norway we have closed sports for children and young people. When you tell Norwegian youth to follow infection control companies, it will not look good if role models on the national team break a quarantine on television, regardless of whether they should express their opinion in clear and legal terms. .
– Do the clubs in Europe understand the situation in which Norwegian players find themselves now?
– I’m excited about that, because the rest of Europe in football has complied with UEFA protocol, which is a bit different from the Norwegian guidelines. This is a new situation for clubs as well. But I have a hard time imagining that a top international club like Dortmund would force a player to play, if he himself thinks he should be in quarantine, says Finstad Berg.
Dortmund informs TV 2 that they are in dialogue with NFF about the situation around Erling Braut Haaland.
Lawyer John Christian Elden writes on his Twitter account that since the travel permit presupposes that the quarantine is going to take place, “they can probably be sanctioned for false explanation of a public request if the intention is not to be quarantined in abroad for 10 days. “
According to the Attorney General, quarantine violations will normally be punished with a fine of NOK 20,000. They have not responded to TV 2’s inquiry about this case.
