[ad_1]
SPREAD OF INFECTION: At Villa Skaar Valstad nursing home in Eidsvoll, 22 of the residents and 24 of the employees were infected with corona. In addition, there are infections in two other municipal institutions. Photo: Terje Bringedal
Today, the Eidsvoll presidency will decide whether local rules will be tightened. Almost a hundred cases of contagion in the municipality in November can be related to the Villa Skaar outbreak, writes the municipal chief.
Although 30 cases of contagion were detected in the municipality in October, mainly among foreign workers, in the first three weeks of November almost 100 cases of contagion were detected.
They may be related primarily directly or indirectly to the outbreak at Villa Skar Valstad nursing home, where eight corona-infected residents have died, writes municipal chief physician Carl Magnus Jensen in his medical evaluation to the presidency.
– Concern and risk of local spread of infection.
The infection has been detected in three municipal institutions, including Villa Skaar Valstad.
– Therefore, most of the cases may be related to various health institutions and, to a large extent, to the outbreak in the Valstad nursing home. However, there is concern and risk of local spread of the infection associated with all social contacts of these infected people before the infection was discovered, writes the municipal chief in his assessment.
He writes that the infection has also spread to employees’ homes.
– When a disease is detected and infection detection is implemented, there has almost always been exposure to the infection in the homes and circle of friends around the infected person. All close contacts you discover are quarantined, but the infection trace must not be absolute, Jensen writes.
CONCERNED: City Chief Medical Officer Carl Magnus Jensen in Eidsvoll Township writes that there is still concern and risk. Photo: Terje Bringedal
also read
Eighth death in a nursing home in Eidsvoll: – A terrible situation
Suggest more austerity
These new austerity measures are proposed by the councilor in addition to the existing local measures:
- Introduce a rule that bandages must be used in stores and shopping centers and that a local restriction of 20 people be introduced in all indoor events.
- Mouthpieces are to be used at funerals. Here you should be able to have 50 people in the church, but 20 people in the memorial service.
- Gyms and public restrooms will be reserved for those who live or work in Eidsvoll.
- Insert a point in local regulations that violations of local rules can be punished with fines or imprisonment.
See VG’s overview of all local crown rules here.
Infection in various institutions
In addition to the deaths at the Villa Skaar Valstad nursing home, a crown-infected resident at the Vilberg health park died in connection with the outbreak. In this nursing home, infection has been detected in three wards.
In one of them came the infection of an employee who had worked in Villa Skaar Valstad. In another pavilion, the infection came from a visitor, while in the third pavilion, which is a crown pavilion, infection was detected in six employees until November 22, and in a patient discharged from the hospital, it appears in the assessment of the municipal doctor.
In a municipal residence, outbreaks of infection were detected in four residents and five employees as a result of infection in an employee who had worked in Valstad.
