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TEST: The government recommends that students who work in health-related professions at home be tested before returning home. Photo: ANGELA WEISS / AFP
Students can travel home for Christmas without being quarantined, but authorities advise them to take precautions and be careful.
The government recommends avoiding unnecessary travel both inside and outside the country. However, they say that travel may be considered necessary for some groups.
“This is especially true for vulnerable groups, singles, students, children who do not live so much with parents as with relatives who have few / no one to celebrate Christmas with,” they write in a statement.
Students and others traveling home for Christmas should take special care for the first ten days after arrival, in accordance with the advice already given. Quarantine is not imposed.
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You should not travel if you are sick or if you are already in quarantine.
The government adds that the risk of infection will be reduced if close contacts are limited before the trip and kept a good distance from each other, as recommended.
Although national students should not be quarantined, everyone studying abroad must be quarantined for ten days when they return home. Norwegian students abroad can be quarantined at their parents’ home. This also applies to students from the Nordic countries.
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CONCERNED: Authorities do not recommend general testing of students. The exception are those who work in health-related occupations at home. Photo: Jil Yngland
– Working students must be evaluated.
Anyone who suspects they are infected should get tested. But it is not a general recommendation to take the test before or after the trip, they write in the statement.
On the other hand, people who come from areas with a lot of infection and are going to work in health institutions (for example, nursing homes, hospitals, nursing homes or the like) should get tested before starting work.
– People who are going to work in a nursing home should, according to the advice on regular (weekly) tests in areas with a high spread of infection, be tested before start-up and after a week they write.
The advice to keep your distance and limit social contact is upheld throughout the New Year. But during Wednesday’s press conference, the prime minister said that one can have up to ten guests for up to two days during Christmas, Christmas and New Years.
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Concerned about traveling students
Health authorities have previously expressed concern about the students’ return home. Earlier this week, the NIPH sent out a report recommending that people be particularly aware of the possible risk of infection from students returning home for Christmas. They emphasize that this mainly applies to affected areas.
– The concern in the coming weeks is especially related to foreigners who will visit their relatives in Norway at Christmas and Norwegian students and foreign workers who return home at Christmas, writes FHI.
Expect more local shoots
There are now significantly more contagious people in the country than this summer. Health authorities write that it is mainly due to domestic infection as a consequence of domestic activities. They are concerned that the contagious situation that Oslo finds itself in will eventually affect the national landscape.
– We expect many more local outbreaks in the coming weeks. The concern is particularly related to students traveling home from the Oslo area to other parts of the country.
At the same time, they write that the ability of municipalities to handle this has improved this fall.
