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The Trondheim Township Presidency meets for special meetings on Christmas 1 and 2 to discuss tightening of infection control rules and stopping events.
The latest and alarming number of 46 new people infected since Christmas Eve morning is the direct background of the meeting being postponed from December 29 to make decisions that will apply from Christmas 2.
When asked by seasoned Mayor Rita Ottervik (Labor Party) if he had ever met in the presidency on Christmas Day, the answer is very clear.
– Never. It has been a quiet Christmas and New Years in Trondheim for many years. I don’t recall there having been such a situation about the lives and health of the people here since the 2004 Christmas tsunami, says Ottervik after crisis management met in the municipality on Christmas Eve morning.
Before the latest infection figures, the closure of nightlife and fitness centers were key issues for better infection control in Trondheim.
Crisis meeting in Trondheim after record infection
– We follow national guidelines with a maximum of 10 people in private companies and 20 public events. Now the presidency, among other things, will consider cutting the number of participants in private meetings and completely stop events such as the Christmas holidays. The decisions will apply directly from the second day of Christmas, Ottervik tells Dagbladet.
It started with Santa Claus
The new wave of infections in Trondheim started two to three weeks ago.
– Both sources are located by the infection tracking team. One source of infection was Santa Claus at a planned family show in Olavshallen. The other large number of infections started in a Trondheim setting with immigrants from Eritrea. They didn’t realize they were infected, Mayor Rita Ottervik tells Dagbladet.
It has been three weeks since infection figures soared around the annual family show “Christmas humor” in OIavshallen. 16 elf children, four other children in the show and another 20 were quarantined.
The infection was transmitted during rehearsals and all four performances were canceled.
The source of the infection turned out to be the man who played Santa Claus on the show.
Santa: fresh and infection free
Dagbladet has been in contact with the man who was to play Santa Claus at the canceled family performances at Olavshallen.
You kindly say that you will not contribute to the public mention of yourself in this situation.
– Feel free to write that I am now healthy and infection free. And that I am 52 years old, says the man with the role of gnome.
– Really damn
Last night, the mayor used the term “really damn” for Adresseavisen about the extensive parties in the city and in private without regard to infection control.
She uses the same words the next day:
– Yes, I am really angry with people who do not pay attention to the life and health of others. There is a large group that has behaved like this and had planned this type of parties in the future. There must be people between 20 and 50 years old, resourceful and who know the language and the rules, says the mayor.
She is equally concerned about what may happen after the New Year.
Fear of guest workers
– 900 new students from abroad arrive in Trondheim. There, the situation is well taken care of with the corona hotels. Many Norwegian students return after Christmas visits in many places. The students have been exemplary in this situation. I am more concerned about the thousands of workers who come from their countries of origin without our having any control over it in the municipality. We ask for a mandatory crown test upon arrival in Norway, says the mayor of Trondheim.
