Sticks from quarantined hotels – don’t worry about fines – VG

She is the Head of Unit in Ullensaker Township and is responsible for accommodating passengers in hotels around Gardermoen. Dissatisfaction is great among leisure travelers who return home at Easter.

Everyone who has returned since Monday after unnecessary trips abroad must spend the entire quarantine period in hotels. At the earliest after seven days, they can leave, provided that two negative tests after arrival.

The previous rule about quarantined hotels for at least three days for Norwegian leisure travelers applied for almost two weeks.

– Major intervention

– Three days triggered many reactions, and now there is no less. Many people think that the rule about quarantine in hotels is an important intervention in their lives and very square, says unit leader Sylvia Aastad to VG.

Romerikes Blad spoke for the first time about those who have escaped from quarantined hotels early. They can expect fines of approx. NOK 20,000 for non-compliance with infection control regulations.

– I say they are reported to the police and fined, some say they don’t care. They don’t think the rule is something to relate to, they don’t want to be decisive, and they feel they have the right to go home with their own, Aastad says.

It reminds us that important austerity measures have been adopted in a short time.

– We are talking about registered Norwegian citizens who have been on vacation or have a home abroad. They are used to traveling and coming home when they want. Think how different it has become.

– It can be uncomfortable

The unit leader talks about the passengers who let their minds go to the hotel and to the municipal employees.

– It can be very uncomfortable. I understand that people can get upset, angry and disappointed, but we are not the ones making the rules. We are only ready to carry out something the government has decided, says Sylvia Aastad.

About. This weekend, 1,750 people were quarantined in ten hotels near Norway’s main airport. The municipality of Ullensaker, which has 3,000 hotel beds, expects even more people during the Easter holidays.

Retirees Tone and Jarle Wergeland spend the winter months in Cyprus. When they were home for Christmas, they were quarantined for ten days at their home in Asker. Since Sunday night they are staying in hotels.

– Don’t trust us

In Hvalstad, a house with two living rooms, four bedrooms, two bathrooms and a garden awaits you. At Gardermoen, they have to eat on the edge of the bed, because there is no room for a table in the room. Outside the hotel, they are only allowed to walk two hours a day.

– We are not going to complain about the hotel, but they have taken away our freedom. I think it’s bad that they get the Storting to change the entry rules along the way. It’s a bit reminiscent of the exemption laws after the war, says Jarle Wergeland (75).

The couple believe it worked perfectly with the home quarantine.

– The government doesn’t trust us. So we can’t trust the government either. It’s that easy.

Ten reported in Bergen

In Bergen, just under 10 people have been reported to the police since October for having evaded the entry quarantine, says emergency manager Ivar Konrad Lunde.

Five have escaped the entry quarantine in Sola municipality: two from Stavanger airport and three from Risavika port.

– Two of the three who had been on an unnecessary pleasure trip in March returned to the hotel after a conversation with the police, says the communications consultant in Sola Odd municipality Kristian Stokka.

1,100 people have lived in quarantined hotels in Sandefjord, since November 9 last year. No one has traveled before time is up.

– So even though not everyone is happy about having to go to quarantined hotels, they have all been loyal to the rules, says Sandefjord Municipality Advisor Thor Henry Thorød.

When Daniel Steen traveled to visit his girlfriend in Helsinki, he was prepared for three days in the hotel quarantine. When he arrived in Gardermoen on Tuesday, the rule had been changed to at least seven hotel days.

– I think maybe I would not have traveled if I had known. At the airport, there were people who knew when they were told they had to go to a hotel, says the 19-year-old from Finnøy in Ryfylke.

Reinforce the rules on Holy Thursday

From Monday, everyone who returns to Norway after unnecessary trips abroad to countries and red areas must spend the quarantine period in a quarantine hotel.

At least after the seventh day, it is possible to get out of quarantine if the traveler tests negative for COVID-19 twice after arrival.

Norwegian citizens must also complete a digital registration form before arriving in Norway. All participants must prove themselves at the border.

Starting on Maundy Thursday, Norwegian citizens and foreigners residing in Norway must also present a new proof of coronation when they come from an area with an obligation to quarantine.

Roman Kulig (37) arrived on Saturday, before the hotel quarantine was extended, but is still in Gardermoen. He is afraid of having to return home to Germany with an unsolved case.

– really confusing

– I was going to visit my partner in Trondheim. We were going to register at Easter, to get married in the summer. She had reviewed the regulations and prepared all the paperwork. And then the rules change …

The Augsburg preschool teacher in Bavaria has resigned.

– One says three days, one says seven days, one says ten days. Nobody reports correctly, it’s really confusing.

– Do you understand that someone gets angry and runs away?

– People are angry. My boyfriend is angry. Throw things on the wall and cry.