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A total of 425 cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed in Norway in the last 24 hours. That’s 161 more than the day before and 154 more than the same day last week.
The number is more than double the average from last week. The last time so many new infections were recorded was on January 20 and 21, with 422 and 431 infected, respectively.
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Stop in Oslo
Also in Oslo, Friday offered high infection rates. In the capital, 90 new people were diagnosed with the virus in the last 24 hours. That’s 26 more than the average for the last week, and corresponds to about 20 percent of cases nationwide.
The Oslo Sagene district has seen a large increase in the number of infection cases in the last two to three days. Two schools and three kindergartens are linked to cases of infection.
District Director Morten Sanden informs NTB that a case of a variant of the mutated virus has so far been found, according to a preliminary test from FHI. It is not known which variant it is.
– There has been a large increase in infections. We have not found connections that are typical of outbreaks. But infection tracking is ongoing, and we’re very carefully looking for couplings, super-spreaders and asymptomatic infections, Sanden said Friday.
– Excellent source of infection
Hunt mutants
Sagene Avis wrote Wednesday about a six-fold increase in infection. Then there were 29 new cases in the district. On Thursday it was ten o’clock again, on Friday it was nine.
In recent days, Oslo University Hospital has analyzed samples from Oslo, among other places, for mutated varieties, and informed Dagbladet on Friday that four South African mutants had been detected among the positive samples in Oslo.
A total of 18,201 citizens of Oslo have been infected since March last year. Approximately a quarter of the cases, almost 4,500, are registered in the age group of 20 to 29 years.
Both in the capital and nationally, arrows have been pointing in the right direction recently, and according to the National Institute of Public Health, the trend towards infection is decreasing. The number of infections in the last 24 hours can only be a matter of a single incident, and it is too early to tell whether the infection trend will have reversed.
