– I’m happy – VG

– We have arrived at the hotel, and now it is well.

This is what Sara Tedese says, who along with her two daughters have been transferred from the reception of the asylum in Vinstra in Nord-Fron to the Wadahl high mountain hotel in Gålå.

It also has 16 other residents who have received negative responses to the coronate test after an outbreak of infection at the reception.

Thedese and the children are healthy and all three have received negative results.

– But it has been very difficult for us, he says.

She and her daughters were transferred from Hobøl to Vinstra on Wednesday. Tedese says they were immediately quarantined, as the infection had already been discovered at the reception.

She says they lived too cramped, with only two beds in the room. The children played with other children in the same hall, where there were also infected people.

– Children play together and there is nowhere else to go. It’s snowing outside, Tedese said when VG spoke to her early Sunday.

She says she’s been scared.

– When we wake up, we check if we feel healthy. If I get sick, what happens to my children?

43 infected people have been registered in connection with the outbreak at the reception. Three tests do not have an unequivocal result and are considered positive until proven otherwise.

Tedese and the children have not lived in rooms with the infected, as four other uninfected residents have at the reception.

On Sunday night, it became clear that the municipality has decided to transfer uninfected residents to the high mountain hotel. Those who have lived in rooms with infected people are transferred to solitary confinement at the reception, because there is a high probability that they will develop symptoms during the period of infection.

One of these cases is that of a minor who has lived with his infected relatives. The municipal chief doctor, Anders Brabrand, tells VG that the boy is staying with his family.

The National Institute of Public Health (NIPH) and the Norwegian Directorate of Health disagree on whether it involves violating infection control rules to allow infected and uninfected people to share rooms. FHI believes that one should do everything possible to distinguish the infected from others, but that in some circumstances it is difficult to achieve. The Norwegian Health Directorate, for its part, says that separating infected people from others is a regulatory requirement that must be followed.

When asked why uninfected people had not been relocated before, Brabrand responds that they needed time to find a safe place to live for the residents.

– We were between several alternatives. Among other things, the patio of the cabin, but ideally you would have many individual rooms and no cabins. And then you should have your own separate bathroom, he says.

– It’s quite complicated. We are talking about people who have lived in the reception, some of them for many years, they must take their things with them, the reception must have its own employee in the hotel, the hotel must have 24-hour reception staff, the service of food must be in place, it must be hot there.

He adds that he’s happy with the solution they finally came up with.

Tedese says on the phone that she is happy with the room they have given her and her daughters at the hotel.

– Do you feel more secure?

– Yes, I’m happy. And the children are happy. The toy, says Tedese.