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As a result of the increased infection in Europe and various parts of the country, the government announces new national measures next week.
– I’m worried.
This is what Prime Minister Erna Solberg (H) said during today’s press conference on the status of the crown in Norway.
The reason is that infection rates are increasing considerably in several European countries and the situation is also developing in a negative direction in this country.
– Although Norway has relatively low infection rates, we recorded that the number of hospital admissions and the number of infected has recently increased, Solberg says during the press conference.
The government now announces that new national measures will be introduced next week, to avoid entering the same situation as the rest of Europe.
Meanwhile, Solberg is calling on the Norwegian population to limit the number of people they spend the next weekend with.
– Each of us must think about how many we associate with. The less we meet, the less the virus will spread, he says.
– The alternative is more infections, more deaths and even stricter measures. When we choose to have more measurements next week and tighten a little more, it is because if we take measurements in November, there is a greater chance of a normal Christmas celebration with the family at home.
On Thursday, 270 new cases of coronavirus were registered in Norway. This is the highest number of infections in one day since March 26 in the country.
There are now 17,234 cases recorded since the outbreak began.
The infection trend in Norway is flat, but 18 municipalities have an increasing infection trend, the VG summary shows.
Cannot be hermetically sealed
For VG, Solberg says we must continue to focus on cracking down on local outbreaks.
– We can’t be canned closed. We will have sprouts in some places. But over time, the good thing is that we keep R below 1, which does not go up and up, but we are in control. And that we run these places, he says.
When asked if it would be relevant to impose more restrictions on social contact, Health Director Espen Nakstad responds:
– I suppose that about half of the infections occur in private homes, so it is natural to analyze more how we can break the contact pattern between people who do not live together as usual to have greater control of the infection. That is what is being done now in many countries in Europe. So it is natural that we also look at it.
New wave in Europe
The director of the National Institute of Public Health, Camilla Stoltenberg, said during the government press conference that a new wave of infections is taking place in much of Europe, but that this is not the case in Norway.
– Norway does not now have a new national wave, but it is clear that what we see in Europe means that the risk of it happening is clearer and greater.
However, the director of public health says that the figures we see now cannot be compared with March and April, because at that time we were only registering a tenth of the case, while now we find about half.
