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The municipality of Trondheim reports on a group of workers who came to Trøndelag from abroad in early January. They are said to have partied together at a quarantine hotel in the city.
The review is signed by the director of health and wellness Helge Garåsen in the municipality, writes Adresseavisen. People are reported for breach of infection control regulations.
– We take the matter very seriously. There are some here who have deliberately broken isolation and quarantine regulations, Garåsen told the newspaper.
Two out of 25 foreign workers who landed in Værnes on January 5 tested positive for coronavirus a few days later. Due to inadequate living conditions, the municipality transferred them to two different isolation and quarantine hotels.
However, when the remaining 23 workers were to be screened, one did not show up. He had fallen asleep and explained that it was because they had had a party the night before.
– This is the most serious case in Trondheim so far in terms of violations of isolation regulations, Garåsen tells Adresseavisen.
INFECTION PARTY: The municipality of Trondheim denounced foreign workers after a party at a quarantine hotel in the city. Photo: Ole Martin Wold / NTB
Squeeze
VG wrote on Tuesday that only some of the arrivals to Norway since the New Year have been quarantined in quarantined hotels, according to check-in figures. No more than three percent of all those who came to the country were quarantined in hotels.
The government has been criticized for being too late for tightening measures at the border. On Wednesday, they finally came up with new measures; now it will be impossible to travel to the country if you don’t live in Norway.
– In practice, the border is closed to everyone who does not live in Norway, he says. This means that many migrant workers cannot come to the country, said Prime Minister Erna Solberg about the measures she described it as “the strictest since March”.
– Closed borders are an indication that control has failed over time, as the situation developed, this became necessary. It could have been avoided if other measures had been previously implemented, Labor Party leader Jonas Gahr Støre said in an interview with VG.
Control after peak of infection
At the end of December, Trondheim and the rest of Trøndelag saw a huge increase in infection cases, and the region had to largely shut down. In Trondheim, the peak of infection occurred on Christmas Eve, just before New Year’s Eve.
In January, they have gradually relaxed the measures. Trondheim was one of the municipalities that reopened the taps when the national ban on alcoholic beverages was lifted last week.
The VG summary shows that the city has a flat infection trend and 91 people have been registered infected in the municipality in the last 14 days. That is equivalent to 44.4 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
