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Border Township Councilor Marker in Østfold, now Viken, has been in quarantine for 10 days after a leisure and shopping trip to Sweden last weekend.
At the same time, Councilor Kjell Jogerud (59) has reported to the Eastern Police District to obtain a professional police assessment on whether he has violated infection control regulations, reports Smaalenenes Avis.
– I see in hindsight that it was probably not so smart to shop at Töcksfors this Saturday, the quarantined councilor told Dagbladet on Wednesday afternoon.
Marker’s municipal council with 3,600 inhabitants near Sweden will hold an extraordinary meeting on Wednesday to discuss the situation that has arisen around the municipality’s top administrative leader.
– This is a serious matter, which can help destroy the reputation of the municipality. We will find out what to do next when we have all the data on the table, says Mayor Thomas Bye (Sp) to Smaalenene.
He has gone through the councilman’s trip to Sweden with Jogerud himself.
The Marker councilor lives in the town of Rømskog in the neighboring Marker municipality, Aurskog-Høland.
There now he is kept strictly to himself.
I got help with the boat
– I just let the cat in and out, he describes to Dagbladet about the unfortunate situation.
He emphasizes that he has nothing to hide, and that it was not a “trick” to act.
– On Saturday I crossed the border on a legitimate assignment to bring the ship ashore in the Dalsland watercourse, two kilometers from my own home. It was blowing hard, and two nice guys who spoke Swedish came over to help. They were between three and five minutes at a distance of one to two meters from me, explains Jogerud about the start of Saturday.
He then deemed it natural for safety reasons for work and the environment for him to go into a so-called three-day leisure quarantine.
It was in that context that I bought food at Töcksfors to avoid shopping at home, it was probably not a smart assessment, says the councilor four days later.
On Monday, he told Marker’s own municipal doctor about the situation, who concluded with a ten-day quarantine of infection.
The police is closing
It was then that it was reported to the police.
By the way, this Wednesday afternoon I received comments from the police that the case had already been dropped.
On the way home on Saturday, he got tested at the Swedish-Norwegian test center, which is in his work municipality, Marker. On Sunday he received a response about a negative test, that is, no registered infection.
– I also did a test on Tuesday. That response did not come Wednesday afternoon. And I’ll take new tests on Friday and Monday, says Jogerud.
The municipality of Marker has only had five cases of infection among the 3,600 permanent residents during the crown period despite heavy traffic of Swedes traveling to Norway via Ørje, including the daily commute of a hundred Swedes working at Marker o in the neighboring municipality Indre Østfold.
