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KEEP TEN: Councilmember Raymond Johansen retains the order limiting the number of guests to ten. Photo: Gorm Kallestad
The municipality of Oslo will not reduce the number of guests it can have at home to five. The city council leader explains that he does not want to confuse the citizens of Oslo.
On Monday, both the Oslo municipality and the government launched a series of new measures. Several of the measures are unanimous, but among the measures that the Oslo City Council decided not to introduce is the recommendation of a maximum of five guests in private homes.
– We already have an order for a maximum of ten guests, and fulfill it. We’ve had that order for a month, city council leader Raymond Johansen (Labor Party) tells VG.
An email sent to the municipality of Oslo on Sunday evening indicates what measures and advice the Norwegian Health Directorate will recommend to highly infected municipalities and regions.
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Management writes that it should be reduced to five people. At the same time, the National Institute of Public Health (NIPH) maintains the recommendation of a maximum of ten.
Setting the limit of five, Johansen believes, will be too demanding for Oslo.
– A bit of the challenge now is that there are many different measures and rules, and it is important to have duration and clarity.
Because the government’s measure is basically a city council, the rupture of which will not be punishable before the city councils make decisions on court mandates, as they have done in Oslo.
– You are already demanding to enforce such orders. We have had discussions about reducing the number from ten to five, but it would be incredibly difficult, also for the police, believes Johansen.
Two hours after the Oslo City Council press conference, the government held its own press conference, introducing the requirement of a maximum of five people for all of Norway.
Already difficult
Making changes to an order that the Oslo municipality has already had for a while will only further confuse, the city council thought.
– Sometimes you can complicate things and others easily. Some things are not allowed, others are a recommendation.
The main point, says Johansen, is to have measures that reduce the number of close contacts.
– Now it’s about having less social contact. When infection rates are as high as they are now, it’s about making infection easier to detect.
Point out that someone may have several hundred close contacts over the course of 14 days.
– Then you can imagine what the tracking job will be like. If you then have 104 infected and each of them has 100 to 150 close contacts, we are very afraid of losing control. It’s that simple, says Johansen.
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Concerned about the spread of infection.
– I am worried now and I think we will see high numbers throughout the week. The infection we see now is the image from a week ago, so we’ll see. It will be very exciting to see the effect of the measures, says Johansen.
– Do the people of Oslo take the situation seriously?
– The question is if you give “beng” or not, and I think most do not. If the 50 who are infected have had many contacts, we have it going. But I think most people are now willing to try to do whatever it takes.
The city council already believes that it sees a change in the streets.
– I see that the urban landscape is changing, there are few people outside and there are many more with masks. I didn’t see that a short time ago, says the councilor.
