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WALL IN WALL: According to the municipal chief, the outbreak in Trondheim must have started by an Edge Barbershop customer who, through close contact, led him to the Lille London pub right next door. Photo: David Engmo
– Not seen before in Norway, says the municipal chief doctor. FHI adds that there are several different subgroups of the coronavirus.
The municipal chief doctor, Tove Røsstad, said last week that the outbreak in Trondheim could be due to a mutation of the virus that could be more contagious.
Therefore, samples of the virus were sent from St. Olav Hospital on Friday for testing at FHI. On Sunday evening Røsstad received a reply:
– Preliminary assessment is that this is a new variant that FHI has not seen before in Norway, Røsstad tells VG.
This is confirmed by FHI, which adds that several different subgroups of the virus were discovered in the outbreak in Trondheim.
MUNICIPAL SUPERVISOR: Tove Røsstad, chief physician, said last week that the outbreak in Trondheim could be due to a mutation in the virus that could be more contagious. Photo: Håvard Jensen Håvard Haugseth Jensen (photo) / Adresseavisen
The outbreak in Trondheim has so far infected at least 35 and has quarantined about 1,500. Over the weekend, eight new ones were diagnosed with coronary heart disease. Six of them are related to the ongoing outbreak which includes the Edge hair salon, the Little London pub and the Bermuda bar.
The municipal chief points out that it is not yet clear whether this mutation is more contagious or what other properties it has.
– How these changes can affect the virus’s ability to infect or cause disease is not yet clear, says Karoline Bragstad, section leader of the National Institute of Public Health in a press release.
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The virus behaves differently
The municipal chief has previously said that the virus during the ongoing outbreak in the city, behaves differently:
– We see that it is easier to infect, that is, it takes less time to become infected. You don’t need to have as close contact as we usually experience. Also, you get sick faster, so the virus behaves differently, Røsstad told VG last week.
The municipal chief doctor, Tove Røsstad, believes that the corona infection came from a client of the Edge barbershop, who then brought the infection to little London next door.
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There are still many in quarantine, and the municipal chief believes that they will see more cases of infection in the coming days:
– Some of those in quarantine are expected to be positive.
– Have you already managed to quell the outbreak?
– It’s too soon to say that. We must continue to do so in the coming days. When the quarantine period is over, we have a more final decision. It will be exciting to see if there are any that have been lost that we have not caught.
She says they now have good control of the outbreak because it is the close contacts who are already in quarantine that test positive.
Inadequate guest lists
DEMANDING: Chief Physician Eli Anne Skaug in Trondheim Township says monitoring the infection has been demanding due to a lack of guest lists. Photo: David Engmo
The contagion trail has been demanding for the municipality because several guests of the Lille London pub have manipulated the registration list:
– Some write things like “the girl to Martin” instead of her name. Others have incomplete names or numbers. There may be cloudy water on the paper, from which we are trying to read something. It’s proper police work, Chief Medical Officer Eli Anne Skaug told VG on Sunday.
They think they could have cut the time they spend tracking infections in half if everyone had provided the correct name and number.
On Sunday, they began to understand how the eruption began. The municipal chief doctor, Tove Røsstad, believes that the corona infection came from a client of the Edge barbershop, who then brought the infection to little London next door.
On Tuesday, they began working on the theory that it could be a more contagious variant of the virus, which also makes people sick faster.
