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The decision comes after the outbreak of the British mutation of the coronavirus in the Oslo region.
– We now have basically the same situation in Norway as in Denmark and in the UK. There is such a spread of the British variant, that there are assumptions that may be significantly more difficult than the one that is spreading in Sweden now, says state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell according to Expressen.
Swedes with new advice from Norway
– Near future
Therefore, the Swedish government is working this weekend to introduce a ban on Norway’s entry into Sweden, and “the decision will be made in the near future,” according to the interior minister.
The Swedish authorities have notified Prime Minister Erna Solberg that they are introducing an entry ban from Norway.
– It is so in many European countries now. Norway has been among the strictest from the beginning. We can’t complain now that the Swedes say they don’t want the mutated virus, Solberg tells NRK.
According to Solberg, the entry ban will apply from midnight until Monday.
Early Saturday, it emerged that the Swedes are asking everyone who has been in Norway for the last 14 days to take the test. You should also avoid contact with others and stay home for at least seven days. No later than five days after returning home, a new test must also be performed.
Others at home must also stay home to await test results, writes the Public Health Authority.
55 cases
In Sweden, 55 cases of the British mutant have so far been detected. All cases can be linked to UK travelers. This is no longer the case in Norway, and on Friday morning the virus alert went off in the Oslo area, after two people in Nordre Follo were confirmed infected with the British mutation of the coronavirus. Those infected have an unknown route of transmission.
Both were residents of a nursing home and died after becoming infected. The nursing home in question has long struggled to keep an outbreak of infection under control, which the municipal chief suspected it could be a more infectious variant.
Sweden: why the death toll is lagging behind
The outbreak now affects 65 people, but according to the municipal chief, not everyone is infected with the mutation. On Saturday, a total of six people linked to the outbreak were diagnosed with the mutant.
All samples taken since mid-December must be mapped for the mutated virus.
It is feared that the virus has already spread in the capital region and therefore very intrusive measures have been introduced in ten municipalities in Nordre Follo.
