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The Margarinfabrikken kindergarten in Bjølsen in Oslo is closed after an outbreak, the Sagene district and the kindergarten administration write in an email to parents and employees in the kindergarten on Tuesday evening.
Parents and guardians are encouraged to screen all children over the age of two.
The kindergarten opened in 2011 and now has 481 children. It is the largest kindergarten in the Nordic region.
Both children and employees
Eleven cases of covid-19 have already been identified, both among children and among employees, district director Morten Sanden in Sagene district informs Dagbladet.
It is suspected that there may be a mutated virus among the detected samples. These are samples that are submitted for further verification for traces of mutated viruses in the first instance.
The first eight positive samples for covid-19 are located in four bases on the second floor of the Old Building.
The kindergarten is now closed from Wednesday to Friday.
– All close contacts with children in relation to suspected mutated virus are or will be notified to take extraordinary rules of infection control. Therefore, close contacts with other children will not have to be temporarily quarantined, says Kathinka Nordhagen Selsjord in the Sagene district, where the municipal kindergarten is located.
It was last week that eight cases of infection were found in the kindergarten, which was originally a margarine factory.
Six kindergartens
– So there have been three new cases. When suspicion of a mutated virus arose, the district discovered, after consulting with the director of infection control and the National Institute of Public Health, that it was necessary to shut down completely to get a better overview and limit further infection, it says Nordhagen Selsjord.
She doesn’t know Tuesday night if a mutated virus was found in one or more of the positive samples.
– Last week, infection was found in six kindergartens in Oslo, including the Margarine factory. The infection has been limited and traceable, and it has not been necessary to close any of the other five kindergartens completely, he says.
