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At the press conference, Health Minister Bent Høie (H) pointed out that the number of seriously ill people is increasing in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. In the UK, infection is increasing among the elderly.
– City after city introduces a curfew. Country after country declares crisis. We didn’t get there. I hope we can keep the infection low and the country open, says Høie.
Line Vold from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health then reported on recent infection rates, where it says we have seen a slight increase since September. It also signaled a disturbing development in our neighboring countries.
– We do not know how the spread of the infection will develop. We can risk regional waves and, in the worst case, a new national wave, even if the goal is to avoid it. It will be there as a threat for many months, and there are no simple solutions, says Vold.
Encourage dialogue
At midnight on Wednesday night, 16,771 people infected with corona were registered in this country. This is an increase of 169 cases reported in the last 24 hours.
Not as many corona-infected patients had been admitted to Norwegian hospitals since May 28. 36 people were admitted on Wednesday, an increase of 7 people from Tuesday.
– We can stop a new wave, the problem is to do it without too great a wave of measures, continues the director of the department.
The Norwegian Institute of Public Health encourages everyone to talk about the best way to eliminate the virus.
– Everyone should participate in the conversation about how we should spend this winter and what measures are appropriate, says Vold.
PK: Minister of Justice and Emergency Management Monica Mæland and Minister of Health and Care Services Bent Høie also attended the press conference. Photo: Jil Yngland / NTB
– Lives can be lost
Recently, several have said that they believe that corona measures are too strict in relation to the effect and severity of the corona bud.
The Minister of Health, Bent Høie (H), took advantage of the press conference to recall the consequences it can have if we fail to control the infection.
– If we release the infection, the hospitals will be overloaded. So other patients who have other diseases will experience no treatment. Then there will be health hazards and lives will be lost, says Høie.
He referred, among other things, to the situation at Hammerfest, where 15 employees have been confirmed to be infected and many are in quarantine.
– At the end of the month, March and April, more than 7,000 people were absent from the health sector due to the crown. If we don’t maintain control of the infection, it quickly enters our hospitals and nursing homes, says Høie.
He defended the crown strategy
On Wednesday, Health Minister Bent Høie (H) gave answers to those who question Norway’s strategy to combat coronary heart disease.
– Releasing the virus and at the same time protecting risk groups would be very demanding and would put great pressure on many people. The risk of our not being successful would be too great, says Høie.
It was during the government press conference on the situation of the crown on Wednesday that the Minister of Health gave answers to those who wonder why we cannot let the majority of people get infected and only protect those who are at risk.
– When we talk about the risk group, many people think of the oldest and most fragile in nursing homes. It is true that the elderly are among the most vulnerable. In the spring, we introduced a moratorium on visiting nursing homes and hospitals to prevent the spread of infection. Patients and families experienced this as a great burden, perhaps even greater than we might imagine. Doing this again, across the country and over time, will once again make life difficult for the most vulnerable among us, Høie says.
But the Minister of Health also pointed out that there are many more than the elderly who are at risk of becoming seriously ill.
Big load
– Up to 1.6 million people may be in the risk group. These are people with chronic diseases such as diabetes and lung diseases, these are people with cardiovascular diseases, these are people who have or have had diseases such as cancer, says the Minister of Health.
Also, he says that isolating all of these people from the infection will be very intrusive.
– This will mean that young people with chronic diseases will not be able to go to school. This will mean that people with cardiovascular disease will not be able to go to work, and this will mean that many people over 65 will have to isolate themselves from the outside world.
Facilitate entry rules
Justice and Emergency Management Minister Monica Mæland opened the press conference saying they are easing entry restrictions for various family members outside of Norway.
– Today, regulatory changes take effect that provide exemptions from entry restrictions, so that more family members can come to Norway to visit relatives, says Mæland.
Exceptions are also made for children and stepchildren over 21 years of age to persons residing in Norway, parents and stepchildren to children over 21 years of age residing in Norway.
– Many, especially children, who have wanted to be visited by their grandparents at Christmas and do so now, says Mæland.
He also stressed that quarantine rules apply and other infection control rules must be followed.
– We have always worked to find the balance between infection control and other important social considerations. If the contagion situation indicates that it is justifiable, it will also gradually open up to the entry of new groups in the future, says the Minister of Justice.
Worried about mink infection
Health Director Bjørn Guldvog believes it is concerning that humans and mink could infect each other with coronavirus.
– It is now clear that coronary heart disease is transmitted between minks and humans, mainly from humans to minks, but we have also seen some cases of minks to humans, he says.
In Denmark, around 15 million minks must be killed. There have also been examples of corona infection in mink farms in the Netherlands and Spain.
– It is worrying that humans and other animals can interact around this virus. This creates greater opportunities for changes in the properties of the virus, says Guldvog.
169 new cases of infection
In the last week, a total of 819 new coronary cases were reported in Norway, according to preliminary figures from the national infectious disease notification system (MSIS).
A total of 29 corona patients were hospitalized on Tuesday, one more than the day before.
NIPH has recorded 278 coronary heart disease-related deaths in this country since March.
Recently, the infection has been high in Oslo. In the last two weeks, 675 cases of infection have been registered in the capital, figures from the Oslo municipality summary show. All districts remain “red”.
