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– A guest and an employee tested positive, says the municipal doctor in Vang, Marit Tuv to NRK on Thursday night.

The DNT Fondsbu booth in Eidsbugarden in Jotunheimen is closed for ten days.

– All adults are rapid tests. All are now in quarantine and must be tested after a week if there is capacity in the municipality where they are located, says Tuv.

Transported everyone away

There have been around 50 guests at the popular DNT hut, which generally hosts around 80 guests. 40 of them were first quarantined in the cabin, while the travel group of 12 people, of which the infected person was part, was transported by the municipality’s health team.

The group must have lived in the cabin for several days.

Later on Thursday night, they were all evacuated.

– The Red Cross helps transport employees and guests, and it has been announced that 15 snowmobiles will be used to make this happen, said General Manager Henning Wikborg at DNT Oslo and the surrounding area on Thursday evening.

– The municipal chief has decided to close the cabin, and it will apply for a quarantine period of ten days, unless new tests of employees show results that allow them to return, he says.

According to Wikborg, Fondsbu has control over everyone who has been to the cabin recently, both for day visits and accommodation. Records are reviewed and all those affected are contacted continuously.

Several of the guests who have been in the cabin come from the Oslo region, where the infection is higher than in the interior.

I had a plan for a quick test

Last week, it emerged that the municipal doctor Tuv had given host Solbjørg Kvålshaugen and another Fondsbu employee the opportunity to quickly assess the guests. They were given extensive training, which they needed by Thursday:

– There was a person who had respiratory symptoms and he went to Solbjørg to get tested. We had planned it that way. That test was positive, says Tuv.

The infected person was placed in isolation in the mountain shelter, according to Avisa Valdres. The remaining guests were asked to stay in their rooms as long as possible.

According to Tuv, everyone in the hut was considered a large cohort, and people were sent to test everyone who had been to Fondsbu in the last few days. A test station was established in the JVB building.

According to DNT, other huts are not known to have had a similar scheme with rapid tests, as they did at Fondsbu. According to Tuv, employees who have received training can carry out this work by delegation from it, according to article 5 of the Health Personnel Law.

– All responses to rapid tests must be reported to the national infectious disease surveillance system, and this must be done through us at the doctor’s office. This also applies to negative responses, says Tuv.

Satisfied with the deal

One of the guests at the cabin is Erik Landnes, who was also transported home by snowmobile.

– DNT and Fondsbu as a tourist hut have received us and taken precautions, and it has been absolutely excellent. Then it was an upset stomach feeling when we found out this morning that it was someone we had circulated for who had tested positive, says Landnes.

– You’re starting to wonder. But then they also looked after us very well, so I have done very well, he says.

Helga Elisabeth Waagaard, who lives in Oslo, was also in the cabin and believes the evacuation was professional. She was one of the last to be kicked out of the booth.

– They have treated us very well, we have had a fantastic week and we have been doing it until today. “I’ve been there as a tour guide, and we’ve had kids and adults with us on the tour every day,” says Waagaard.