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On Monday morning, the Norwegian Health Directorate states that they recommend removing the recommendations to avoid having guests at home. It is also stated that the National Institute of Public Health and the Norwegian Health Directorate do not agree on whether the national ban on alcoholic beverages should be continued.
The Norwegian Directorate of Health and the National Institute of Public Health give their recommendations on infection control measures to the government, but it is the government that ultimately decides which measures will be removed or introduced. The government will present its decisions to the Storting on Monday at 12 noon.
To visit
With regard to recommendations related to social contact, the Norwegian Health Directorate writes the following:
“The Norwegian Health Directorate proposes that the recommendation that single people can only receive visits from one or two permanent friends or from a permanent home will not be continued after 19 January. It is also proposed that the recommendation to avoid having guests in the house not continue after January 19. “
The National Institute of Public Health adds in their assessments that they believe everyone in the coming weeks should limit contact with other people as much as possible, and recommends that you can have up to five guests in addition to household members, and that the total number of contacts for a week should be limited. Necessary contacts in a work context, household members, and kindergarten and school cohorts.
Torrential
Regarding the recommendations related to the prohibition of drinking, the Norwegian Health Directorate writes the following:
“The Norwegian Health Directorate believes that the infection situation remains unclear and we are concerned that the opening of soft drinks in restaurants contributes to increasing mobility and contact of the population and therefore contributes to the spread of the disease. infection. Therefore, we believe it is appropriate to maintain the prohibition of alcohol for another 14 days. Therefore, we are not proposing any regulatory changes at this point now. “
The Norwegian Institute of Public Health, for its part, proposes to go back to previous national recommendations related to nightlife and places to eat. This means stopping admission at 10 pm, ordering a registration system for guests in pubs, as well as reducing the number of guests, especially indoors.
The National Institute of Public Health emphasizes in its recommendations that drinking stops still need to be assessed locally based on the local infection situation. Such local assessments are the reason why, for example, Oslo has had a ban on alcoholic beverages longer than the rest of the country.
Schools
Regarding the recommendations related to the level of measures in schools, the Norwegian Health Directorate states that they recommend a yellow level of measures at the national level:
“The Norwegian Health Directorate supports FHI’s recommendations for schools and kindergartens. We believe that, as a general rule, the yellow level should be introduced nationally and that the red action level should be used according to the traffic light pattern in the infection control guidelines. “
Home office and travel
In addition, the Norwegian Health Directorate states that they will continue to recommend home offices for all who have the opportunity to do so, they also recommend avoiding all unnecessary domestic and international travel, and recommend that all universities, colleges and faculties use teaching digital whenever possible.
Regarding the latter, the Norwegian Health Directorate writes the following:
“The Norwegian Health Directorate supports the FHI recommendation for higher education, which recommends measures at measure level 3, that is, the proportion of digital education has been increased and larger conferences and meetings are avoided.”
Events
The Norwegian Institute of Public Health recommends various number restrictions for private indoor and outdoor meetings. Indoors, a limit of a maximum of ten people is recommended, while outdoors, a limit of a maximum of 20 people is recommended. This means an extension of the number of restrictions for private meetings, which until January 19 is a maximum of five people.
Regarding canceling or postponing events, the Norwegian Health Directorate writes the following:
“The Norwegian Health Directorate continues to recommend, as FHI also recommends, that events that bring together people from different districts / municipalities / geographic areas be canceled or postponed, as well as events that involve unnecessary domestic travel for participants. It is the organizer who must decide whether the event should be canceled or postponed. “
CORRECTION: In an earlier version of this article, Dagbladet wrote that the National Institute of Public Health’s proposal for a national ban on alcoholic beverages implies a ban on alcoholic beverages starting at 24 hours. This was a direct reproduction of the Norwegian Health Directorate, which was incorrect. The proposal from the National Institute of Public Health involves an admission stop at 10 p.m., an order to register guests in pubs, and a recommendation to reduce the number of guests, especially indoors.
