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The Målselv municipality sent out a press release on Friday evening saying that one of the Setermoen camp employees, who has now tested positive, took part in a course at Skjold camp earlier this week.
There were around 25 participants in the course. Now everyone is in quarantine.
– We are still looking for the source of infection, and now crisis personnel have been deployed to the municipalities of Bardu and Målselv, says the head of infection control in Bardu, Vidar Bjørnås.
About 170 people have been tested for corona, after two armored battalion employees were diagnosed with an infection on Wednesday. A total of 20 people have been infected in connection with the outbreak in Setermoen camp.
19 of them are affiliated with the camp. Also, an American soldier is infected. It is considered an isolated case of infection.
There are no infected recruits, only employees in the camp. Bardu Municipality Mayor Toralf Heimdal is concerned about whether it will spread to recruits.
– We do not have the opportunity to isolate them in the same way as employees. Today we are also beginning to test the recruits, says Heimdal.
According to Mayor Toralf Heimdal, the municipality is working hard to detect the infection.
Photograph: Rune Nordgård Andreassen / NRK
Recruits have been prohibited from entering the door and everyone in the camp must limit close contact.
Several of those infected participated in the social event of the Armed Forces last Saturday where 200 people participated. It is not yet confirmed that the infection came from the match.
Evaluating staff in elementary school
In addition, infection tracing work has led the Bardu municipality to close a primary school after receiving information on close contacts.
– We are now in the process of testing all employees. The school will be closed until we get a response to this. The municipality is also asking the local population to be very careful and limit the number of close contacts, says infection control chief Vidar Bjørnås.
The chief doctor for infection control in Bardu municipality, Vidar Bjørnås, says that extensive work is being done on infection detection.
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Despite the outbreaks, the director of infection control will not classify the municipality as a red zone.
– The outbreak is still in a limited group in Setermoen. During the weekend, we will know if there is an infection in the local population and then it can affect the entire region.
Before these cases, Bardu had not had any cases of infection since March.
– First of all, it is difficult on the health side, but today the county doctor contacted FHI to get help from them. In addition, the Armed Forces contribute their own hospitals where we can take samples, says Mayor Toralf Heimdal.
There have been 498 new cases of infection in Norway in the last 24 hours, which is the highest number of new infections in Norway in less than 24 hours during the corona pandemic.
In the last week, 2,530 people tested positive for covid-19.
