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The Bergen Municipality City Council is now introducing a ban on private gatherings of more than ten people and a ban on bandages in public transport.
– The moving average is 36 infected per day in the last seven days. This is the highest since the pandemic began. Now we must get serious about ourselves, says Councilor Roger Valhammer during today’s press conference.
Yesterday, the government announced several recommendations and national adjustments. The Bergen City Council considers that national recommendations are not sufficient in the municipality alone given the infection situation.
These are the measures that will be introduced in Bergen on Thursday night this week:
- Prohibition of private meetings with more than ten people, with the exception of the cohorts of kindergarten and primary children.
- Mandatory for bandages in public transport that cannot be kept within a meter of distance
- Mandatory for indoor bandages in public places where a distance of one meter cannot be maintained
- Prohibition of more than 50 participants in public events without a fixed seat. With fixed seats, the limit is 200, according to national regulations.
- Liquor liquor stop and nightclub entry stop at midnight
- Requirements for the identification of guests and guest lists in restaurants, even where alcohol is not served
- Requirement that the noise level in nightclubs must not exceed a level where guests can have a conversation from one meter away
- New Nursing Home Visiting Restrictions
- Recommendation that everyone who can have a home office should have one
Valhammer says he supports the government’s recommendation to reduce the number of close contacts.
– The people of Bergen have so far shown that we can reduce the pressure of infection when necessary. Now, sadly, we have to push again, says the town council leader.
The Councilor for Health Beate Husa makes a clear call to all those who have participated in events or parties where they have not stayed one meter away:
– Go into quarantine. You have to take responsibility. Avoid social contact until you have put yourself to the test. People who have violated infection control rules must bear the consequences of what they have done and be quarantined, Husa says.
She emphasizes that only people who have symptoms or who are close contacts should be tested, due to challenges when it comes to testing ability. According to Husa, the municipality is in control, even though a lot is happening at the test stations.
The health council says the municipality has gone to great lengths to come up with measures that they believe are more specific than those introduced last time, as they have gained more knowledge about the virus and how it spreads.
– Unfortunately, the number of infected has not decreased since Friday when we announced new measures, she says, with a clear encouragement to residents to comply with the rules and go directly to quarantine if they tell her they are in close contact with a infected.
77 cases registered in the last 24 hours
On Tuesday, the municipality of Bergen reports that there have been 77 new cases of infection in the municipality in the last 24 hours, which is the highest number ever recorded.
Husa claims that the 77 infected, with the exception of three people, are under 60 years of age. Most are young adults. Nine of the cases are infections imported from abroad or from other municipalities. So far, there are three cases that have an unknown route of transmission, but there may be more.
There is a large variation in the reported figures from day to day, and they will be distributed correctly according to the sampling date within a couple of days. Therefore, the number of the last 24 hours may change a little later.
The reason more cases are now being recorded than were recorded during the first corona wave in March is because many more people are being tested.
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