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The Målselv municipality sent out a press release on Friday evening saying that one of the Setermoen camp employees, who has now tested positive, took part in a course at Skjold camp earlier this week.
There were around 25 participants in the course. Now everyone is in quarantine. Additionally, 25 new people have been quarantined after being in close contact with a confirmed case of infection in the Setermoen camp.
“We have quarantined more than the guidelines dictate, but it is to be on the safe side and we take whatever precautions we can,” says Army spokesman Eirik Skomedal.
About 170 people have been tested for corona, after two armored battalion employees were diagnosed with an infection on Wednesday. A total of 20 people have been infected in connection with the outbreak in Setermoen camp.
19 of them are affiliated with the camp. Also, an American soldier is infected. It is considered an isolated case of infection.
– We are working hard on monitoring infections and it is especially important to find patient 0, says the mayor of the municipality of Bardu, Toralf Heimdal.
He is concerned that the infection will spread to recruits.
– We do not have the opportunity to isolate them in the same way as employees. Today we are also beginning to test the recruits, says Heimdal.
According to Mayor Toralf Heimdal, the municipality is working hard to detect the infection.
Photograph: Rune Nordgård Andreassen / NRK
Recruits have been prohibited from entering the door and everyone in the camp must limit close contact.
Several of those infected participated in the social event of the Armed Forces last Saturday where 200 people participated. It is not yet confirmed that the infection came from the match.
Evaluating staff in elementary school
In addition, infection tracing work has led the Bardu municipality to close a primary school after receiving information on close contacts.
– We are now in the process of testing all employees. The school will be closed until we get a response to this. The municipality is also asking the local population to be very careful and limit the number of close contacts, says infection control chief Vidar Bjørnås.
The chief doctor for infection control in Bardu municipality, Vidar Bjørnås, says crisis personnel have been deployed to the municipalities of Bardu and Målselv.
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Despite the outbreaks, the director of infection control will not classify the municipality as a red zone.
– The outbreak is still in a limited group in Setermoen. During the weekend, we will know if there is an infection in the local population and then it can affect the entire region.
Before these cases, Bardu had not had any cases of infection since March.
– First of all, it is difficult on the health side, but today the county doctor contacted FHI to get help from them. In addition, the Armed Forces contribute their own hospitals where we can take samples, says Mayor Toralf Heimdal.
There have been 498 new cases of infection in Norway in the last 24 hours, which is the highest number of new infections in Norway in less than 24 hours during the corona pandemic.
In the last week, 2,530 people tested positive for covid-19.
20 new infected in Drammen
In the past 24 hours, 20 people in Drammen have been diagnosed with coronary heart disease. Half have a currently unknown transmission route, the Drammen municipality said on its website on Saturday.
– For ten of those who have now been infected, it has so far not been possible to determine a safe route of infection. The work of mapping the route of infection continues, writes the municipality.
Among those infected, there are four students at Drammen Senior High School. Affected classes are quarantined.
29 hospital employees in quarantine
Yesterday, 29 employees of the St. Olav Hospital in Trondheim were quarantined, after a patient tested positive for COVID-19. The patient was examined in several wards and first gave two negative coronary tests. But the third was positive.
The patient is one of four now admitted with covid-19 at St. Olav’s hospital. One of the patients receives intensive care on a ventilator.
– Currently, there are no coronary heart disease symptom warnings for any of the 29 employees now in quarantine. Here’s what Marit Kvikne, St. Olav’s Communications Director, says.
– The most important thing is to get traces of infection from everyone, and we believe that it is already done. Aside from the 29 who were quarantined last night, no new hospital employees have been quarantined.
Marit Kvikne, communications director for St. Olav, emphasizes that the situation has no operational consequences.
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Health personnel who are in quarantine work in three or four different departments, which means that operations in the hospital are running normally.
– Fortunately, the situation has not had significant operational consequences, although it is demanding to handle this type of incident. The fact that the hospital has almost exclusively private rooms is a great advantage in such situations and limits the possibility of infection from one patient to another, says director Runa Heimstad.
The 29 employees who are in quarantine will be there for ten days and will not return to work until next weekend.
Yesterday, 14 new corona positives were recorded in Trondheim. 1023 tests were carried out. There is still a strong growing trend for outside infections to dominate.
