This is how the Easter hut, here are the rules that apply, it becomes VG

Just a few days before Easter, the government is tightening and introducing strict national measures that will take effect on Thursday, March 25.

The bar stop, the two-meter rule and a maximum of two guests in private homes are some of the recommendations that the government wants Norwegians to follow this Easter.

– The new national measures, of course, also apply during the Easter holidays, no matter where they are spent, Health Minister Bent Høie said during the government press conference on Tuesday afternoon.

At the same time that the government asks Norwegians to avoid unnecessary travel in Norway, you can still travel to the cabin.

– We do not advise against traveling to the cabin, but traveling alone with your own home. If you live alone, you can travel with one or two regular friends or with a permanent home, Høie says.

Follow the strictest rules

Although Easter tourists must mainly follow the corona measures that are applied in the municipality in which they live, the government’s message is this: if you travel from a municipality with stricter measures than the one where you spend the Easter holidays, you must follow the rules. of the municipality of origin.

– If you live in a place where the municipality advises against home visits, you should not have visits where you spend Easter either, says Høie.

Recently, several cottage municipalities have introduced local measures that are much stricter than new government recommendations, including Hol Municipality, which bans guests in the cottage at Easter.

In the special crown of VG, you can read about what measures are applied in each municipality.

Buy in advance

Although there is nothing to prevent cabin tourists from shopping locally, the government recommends that those who go to the cabin do their shopping before departure.

If you have to go to the store while in the cabin, the recommendations are as follows:

• Use face masks in stores
• Only one in family offices
• Trade at times when not everyone else is trading

If you are sick, go home.

On Tuesday, the municipal chief of Hemsedal told of the visitors who refused to travel home from the mountain cabin after being diagnosed with an infection.

– If you get sick and are in the cabin, go home, says Høie during the press conference on Tuesday.

These are the government’s recommendations regarding disease and quarantine:

• If you are in quarantine, or waiting for test results, you should not go on Easter holidays, not even to your own cabin.
• If you are in the cabin and you get sick, you should go home. If you are called and quarantined, you must go home.

Hemsedal and Nesbyen are among the municipalities that have now stipulated in regulations that people who become ill or are quarantined or isolated must return home as soon as possible.

So these municipalities go beyond the government: if you don’t travel home if you get sick or end up in quarantine, you’re breaking local infection control rules.

Avoid cabin to cabin

Although the government does not advise against traveling to the hut, the government is skeptical of the Easter hut of the more nomadic type.

In its recommendations, the government writes that it is not recommended to go from cabin to cabin, “as this implies a significantly higher risk of spreading the infection.”

Local authorities should also consider whether tourist huts should be closed if they are difficult to find, and this in turn can create challenges related to medical care, quarantine or testing, the government writes in its recommendations.