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The Korona alarm went off in several places in western Norway this weekend.
There is a hectic test of people who suspect they may be infected with corona in western municipalities. Here from the Laksevåg test station in Bergen. Photo: Eirik Brekke
Several hundred people have been quarantined due to new cases of infection in western Norway this weekend.
On Sunday, among 90 other students at Steinerskulen in Bergen were quarantined, after an employee tested positive.
10 new cases of infection were also detected in NHH and UiB, in addition to 25 VID University College students have been quarantined after two cases of infection at school.
13 people were also quarantined after a child in Klosteret’s kindergarten was diagnosed with covid-19.
The exact number of new cases registered in Bergen over the weekend will not be known until Monday, because the municipality only presents updated figures on weekdays.
All 8th, 9th and 10th grade pupils, as well as the first grade of upper secondary school, have been quarantined at Steinerskulen in Bergen. Photo: Jannica Luoto
70 must be quarantined at Stord
In the last three days, the municipality of Stord has discovered five new cases of infection.
So far, 70 people have been quarantined because they have been in close contact with one or more of those infected, the Sunnhordland newspaper reports.
In total, there are not 12 people who have tested positive for covid-19.
39 of the 70 are students at Stord Senior High School, where a student from the athletic line tests positive on Friday. Two teachers have been diagnosed with the virus and two have been quarantined.
A Kvaerner Stord employee also tested positive for COVID-19 this week. Those who have had office space close to the person in question have been quarantined.
On Saturday evening, Stord Township received a report that another Kvaerner employee had tested positive, they reported on their website Sunday. Close contacts have been notified and will be tested.
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A student and two teachers at Stord Upper Secondary School tested positive for COVID-19. 70 people have been told to self-quarantine this weekend.
New case of infection in Austevoll
Austevoll also had a new case of infection on Sunday. Report this to the municipality on their website.
– The person in question has been seen in isolation, reports Deputy Mayor Anja Heggholmen to the local newspaper Marsteinen.
Four other people have been quarantined. For example, the source of infection is unknown.
106 people have been tested in Austevoll this week, and the municipality is awaiting responses to three of them.
Until now, the coronavirus has led the Blenæs Bygg company to choose to shut down its operations after two employees were quarantined.
Another austevolling is in quarantine after a visit to the Haukeland University hospital in Bergen.
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Chose to isolate
On Saturday, the municipality of Bjørnafjorden discovered a new case of covid-19. Fortunately, the man who was diagnosed with the infection had already isolated himself on his own initiative.
The reason was that the symptoms he had reminded him of covid-19. The fact that it has been isolated has led to few people being quarantined as a result of the infection.
The man is 20 years old and the route of infection must be known, reports the municipality of Bjørnafjorden.
Assistant municipal reader Jonas Nordvik Dale states that all close contacts have been notified. So far, 22 cases of the virus have been detected in the municipality of Bjørnafjorden.
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A new infection in Øygarden
The last municipality to report new cases of covid-19 on Sunday is Øygarden.
Two people have been quarantined as a result of the positive test.
A total of 60 people living in Øygarden tested positive for corona.
– So far, 16 people have been quarantined, says Acting Infection Control Doctor Bjørg Møllerbakken.
