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In the past 24 hours, nine people tested positive for the coronavirus in Sarpsborg and 17 in Fredrikstad. Almost 200 people have been quarantined, estimates the Fredrikstad municipal chief.
A total of 42 people from the same environment are infected.
According to the Fredrikstad municipal chief doctor, Anne Kristine Nitter, the infection must have spread in two groups.
Religious meeting and family event.
Last week, a religious meeting was organized in Sarpsborg. According to the Sarpsborg Municipality, this should have been a celebration of a Muslim holiday.
At least one person must have been infected when they attended the event. The celebration must have lasted several days.
INFECTION DETECTION JOBS: Anne Kristine Nitter, municipal chief physician in Fredrikstad, says there are about eight people working with infection detection in connection with the outbreak.
Photo: Johannes Kolstad Olsen / Fredrikstad Municipality
– We take the situation seriously, and we should probably expect more cases of infection related to this event in the coming days. At the same time, we hope that through good infection screening we will prevent the outbreak from growing further, says Nitter.
Everyone who participated in the event in Sarpsborg was quarantined.
Also, an infection must have occurred in a family event. Several of the same people have participated in both events.
Municipalities are working to test all participants and a lot of work is being done to detect infections.
– All are known close contacts. People work very well with us and help us so that we can find new close contacts. We’ve been in contact with a lot of people now, and there are a lot who are testing themselves, says Nitter.
Collaborate with the religious network
The infection has affected people in the age group of 10 to 50 years.
– We are talking about approx. 160 people who should have been there one or more days, Sarpsborg municipal chief doctor Karianne Jenseg Bergmann tells NRK.
GOOD COOPERATION: Sarpsborg municipal chief physician Karianne Jenseg Bergmann says the religious community leader has helped spread information among participants.
Photo: Odd Skjerdal / NRK
For the sake of the participants and those infected, Bergmann does not want to elaborate on the event.
– We have a good collaboration with the leader of the religious network and we know that the environment also takes this seriously, he says.
Infection in primary school and nursing home.
Several hundred have been quarantined in kindergartens, health institutions and schools. In Sarpsborg, this applies to the Sandesundsveien school, the Greåker upper secondary school and the Tingvoll nursing home.
MORE IN QUARANTINE: At the Tingvoll nursing home in Sarpsborg, 12 patients and six employees have been quarantined. They will also be tested for the coronavirus.
Photo: Odd Skjerdal / NRK
At the Tingvoll nursing home, an employee is infected, but it is not known whether this case of infection may be related to the event, according to the municipality.
– Everyone who participated in the event has been quarantined. The same goes for several other close contacts. Therefore, we believe that we have some control over the situation, says municipal chief physician Bergmann.
