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Justice and Emergency Management Minister Monica Mæland says that as of today, visitors must stay in quarantined hotels unless they have accommodation in Norway.
Photo: Terje Pedersen
Health director Bjørn Guldvog says health authorities are working to reach immigrants with information in multiple languages.
Photo: Terje Pedersen
Over the weekend, a total of three people died as a result of coronary heart disease. At the same time, there is a growing infection nationwide and several local outbreaks.
A serious health minister addressed the situation in Belgium at the government press conference on the situation of the crown on Monday.
– Seven weeks have passed since the infection really took off in Belgium, Høie said and showed a graph of the development in Belgium where the infection arrow goes up.
– In October, it exploded. Now 600 people are admitted to the hospital every day and 160 people die every day, Høie said.
– If we do not stop the spread of the infection in Norway now, we could be in a similar situation in seven weeks, warned the Minister of Health.
– We have to take control of the infection before it really accelerates. We may not have that opportunity for a week or two. Now we have that opportunity. If we don’t take advantage of it, Christmas could be marked by illness, death, and crowded hospitals.
– Belgium is not a forecast for Norway, but a story about what to avoid, Høie added after questions from the press.
5000 crowns for quarantined hotel
Part of the corona infection comes from people traveling from abroad. The government has thus strengthened its control.
Today, the rules on quarantined hotels for all travelers from red countries come into force: now all visitors to quarantined hotels must do so, unless they have their own home in Norway, or the employer has arranged quarantine facilities .
If you are traveling from abroad, you must pay the NOK 5,000 deductible for ten nights in quarantined hotels, unless you have your own home in Norway. The rules go into effect today. Employers must pay NOK 1,500 per day for their stay at the quarantine hotel.
– The quarantine period is not shortened even if the test is negative. It can be difficult to receive visits from girlfriends, grandparents, and other family members.
– But we do what we can to control and prevent infection, said Justice Minister Monica Mæland.
Students or others with a family and permanent residence in Norway can live at home with the family, Mæland notes.
Working to reach immigrants
Health director Bjørn Guldvog emphasized that various immigrant groups are overrepresented in infection statistics.
– This may be related to health competence, language skills, living conditions, vulnerable occupations, frequency of contact with family and relatives and travel outside the Nordic region. Therefore, we have directed a lot of communication towards these groups, said the health director.
Therefore, health authorities are now actively working to reach immigrants and show, among other things, informational videos in various languages on Facebook.
Various outbreaks and deaths
Hyllestad Township has put in crisis staff after the corona outbreak they have struggled with has reappeared again. Today it became clear that 12 employees of the Havyard Ship technology in Leirvik tested positive for corona.
In Tromsø, infection was detected in 12 schools after massive tests were carried out at several upper secondary schools in the municipality last week. Several of the schools are closed. Around 5,000 pupils in Troms and Finnmark upper secondary schools are receiving measures based on advice from the infection authority.
At Porsanger in Finnmark, one person died on Sunday as a result of covid-19.
In Lier, two patients died in the Liertun nursing home who had been infected with corona. The deaths come after an outbreak in the nursing home. Currently, nine employees and nine patients at Liertun are infected. In addition, an employee and a patient at the Fosshagen nursing home in Lier are infected.
At midnight on Sunday night, 24,729 corona-infected people were registered in this country. This is an increase of 490 cases reported in the last 24 hours.
Most cases of infection in Norway are in Oslo. In the last 14 days, a total of 1,632 new cases of infection have been registered in Oslo. 124 new infections have been recorded in Oslo in the last 24 hours. There is an increase of 34 cases of infection from the previous day.
