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– We have to screen people with signs of covid-19 disease forever, Osterholm says in a question about the corona situation on the Axios website, writes CNN.
– The virus does not disappear in everyone. Remember that there are billions of people in low-income countries, some in middle-income countries, who will never have access to a corona vaccine. In these countries, we will also see the spread of virus variants, he says.
Osterholm adds that the tests will also be useful in mapping the effectiveness of vaccines and seeing where there is a need for so-called “booster doses,” as well as reload vaccines.
Those who have already been vaccinated after a while may need such a dose.
PRESIDENTRÅDGIVER: Epidemiologist Osterholm from the University of Minnesota served as an adviser to US President Joe Biden when he took over the job on coronavirus at the White House in January. Photo: Glen Stubbe / Zooma Press / NTB
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Effective infection detection
Norway has long used the TISK (testing, isolation, monitoring and quarantine) strategy as an important weapon in the fight against coronavirus. Strategy is considered very important for effective infection detection in society.
«In addition to all current advice, a more intensive TISK strategy should be considered when tracking close contacts in outbreaks, regardless of virus variant.»Writes the National Institute of Public Health (NIPH) on its website.
Hardened TISK means more extensive testing and quarantines, and more emphasis on good quarantine and isolation implementation.
But for the strategy to be successful, analytical laboratory capacity is needed, a capacity that is now beginning to explode in Norway, assistant health director Espen Nakstad said on a Dagbladet TV broadcast on Wednesday.
– That work has never been more extensive than it is now and there are limits to the number of people who have time to call and track the infection. There is clearly a limit to this. It’s hard to say exactly where it’s going, but municipalities report that they are now approaching absolute maximum capacity, he said.
If TISK fails, it is no longer possible to keep outbreaks under control by isolating infected people, tracing close contacts and quarantining them, and having enough people tested. The result is the uncontrolled and hidden spread of the infection.
Last week, Nakstad said the strategy was approaching breaking point in the capital. Since then, the British mutant, responsible for the vast majority of infections in Oslo, has spread to new areas of eastern Norway. The municipalities of Haugalandet, as well as Bodø and Salten, have also battled aggressive mutant outbreaks.
– The tendency to infection in the last seven days continues to increase. In eastern Norway, some municipalities have had infection rates flattening, others still have an increase, Nakstad told Dagbladet TV on Wednesday.
4.4 million corona tests
A total of 125,330,874 people have been registered infected after the pandemic broke out a year ago, the summary shows to Worldometers. Among the countries that are now most affected is Brazil.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says the situation in the country is worrying and requires action. Brazil has registered a total of 12.2 million cases of infection, which is why it surpassed India (11.7 million) in the number of infected and ranked second behind the United States (30.7 million), according to displays the summary.
In Norway, 984 new infected people were registered in the last 24 hours, 101 less than the day before and 80 less than the same day last week.
As of midnight Thursday night, 90,104 people have been infected with corona in this country, according to preliminary figures from the national infectious disease notification system (MSIS).
So far 4.4 million corona tests have been performed in the country.
520,067 people received the first dose of the corona vaccine and 263,784 people received the second dose.
