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– It is clear that we must make changes to be successful in continuing to control the pandemic in Norway, says Espen Nakstad in the Norwegian Health Directorate to NRK.
The statement comes in the wake of recent infection figures on Friday. During the last 24 hours, 270 new cases of infection have been confirmed in Norway, 79 of them in the capital.
– The level of infection in Norway has been too high in Norway over time. We continually assess the need for new or intensified measures, Nakstad tells Dagbladet.
Risk areas
He adds that much can be done by improving compliance with existing measures and advice.
– But there is also a lot to be gained if measures are reinforced more towards risk areas, where we know there is a lot of infection, he says and adds:
– Of course, we are also considering new measures, but we have not concluded yet.
The government and health authorities will hold a press conference on the situation of the crown in Norway at 1 pm on Friday.
Approaching March
The worst day in terms of the number of infected people in Norway was March 24, when 313 cases of infection were reported to the National Institute of Public Health. Therefore, the infection figures on Friday attest that we are approaching the levels we saw in March.
Since the summer, FHI’s overview of which age groups are most affected by the infection has shown that it is primarily the young who top the statistics. In recent days, however, infection among the older age groups has been on the rise.
The number of hospital admissions has also increased recently, and on Thursday, the Norwegian Health Directorate stated that 44 patients had been admitted with corona infection, four of them on a ventilator.
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In Europe, this has been the trend for some time, and in several places the number of hospital admissions and intensive care units has increased dramatically in recent times. Among other places in the UK.
Several countries have also had to reintroduce highly intrusive national measures, after March infection records were broken.
Both Nakstad and Chief Physician Preben Aavitsland of the National Institute of Public Health told Dagbladet earlier this week that Norway must be vigilant to avoid similar trends here.
– As long as we keep the epidemic under control, as now, there will be few deaths, but we must be vigilant all the time. Municipalities must monitor, detect outbreaks, take action and monitor the situation, Aavitsland said.
