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Eigersund has the highest number of coronary heart disease in Rogaland relative to the size of the municipality. Six new cases of infection were registered on Wednesday. Now the municipality urges people to look behind the numbers.
According to the Aftenbladet overview, Eigersund now has 67 cases of infection. However, there is no reason to worry that the infection will get out of control, says communications manager Leif E. Broch. Photo: Arnt Olav Klippenberg
The six recent cases of infection that were recorded on Wednesday are all labor immigrants who have come to Eigersund from “red” countries for work reasons.
No local spread of the infection has been identified and relevant close contacts have been established until those infected have been quarantined.
Leif E. Broch is Communications Manager for Eigersund Municipality. Photo: Arnt Olav Klippenberg
In an unusually comprehensive press release on the new infection cases that were sent out on Wednesday evening, the Eigersund Municipality writes, among other things, the following:
“We want to make it clear that the total number of covid-19 cases in the Eigersund municipality actually says very little about the local spread of the infection. The fact that the Eigersund municipality in various contexts is defined as’ a red municipality “and” the municipality of Rogaland that is the most affected “, therefore, gives very little expression to what is the real infection situation in the municipality. On the other hand, it is an expression that it is a screening system and a tracking that works.
We also note that the municipality of Eigersund per. today it has not taken any local action, but only follows national advice and recommendations. This is due to the contagion situation in the municipality where, as said, there is no local spread of the infection and where the registered cases are mainly related to employees who come from “red countries”. Again, as I said before, this is a situation that is considered to be well controlled and not at all dramatic. “
Many foreign workers come to work at Aker Solutions in Eigersund. Photo: Pål Christensen
According to the Aftenbladet overview, with the last six there have been a total of 67 cases of infection in Eigersund.
Communications manager Leif E. Broch in Eigersund Township says the reason a lengthy press release was sent out Wednesday on the source of the infection is that many residents are concerned.
– Yes, some people are worried. We have heard that people are afraid to go to the store in Eigerøy, where Aker Solutions is located. But there is no reason for that. When we correct for labor immigration, we have hardly had an infection. And we haven’t seen a single case where the infection has spread from an immigrant working to a local population, Broch tells Aftenbladet.
It is clear to the head of communications that there is total control over everyone who comes from abroad to work in Eigersund.
– When workers have been in their country of origin, they are collected with their own transport at the airport, examined and taken directly to quarantine. No one comes in hanging through the door. This is a good system. So we don’t have any infection spreading in the municipality, emphasizes Broch.
