Tor ended up in quarantine after a visit to the bar: thinks the bar should have closed earlier – NRK Trøndelag – Local news, TV and radio

– We are not allowed to go to the store, we are not allowed to do anything.

Tor Esp is in quarantine with his partner. On Saturday 10th October they visited the Lille London nightclub in Trondheim.

In retrospect, 800 of the guests who visited the nightclub in the period 7-10. October ended in quarantine.

I did not receive any message

– We went at 20 and sat there for a few hours. We were there with a couple of friends of ours, they are also in quarantine, Esp tells NRK.

When Esp and his partner visited the club on Saturday, there was nothing to indicate a risk of contagion when visiting the club.

– No way. When we entered we had to record the phone number. Both we and our pair of friends did, but they did not tell us that someone had passed because the suspects had the coronavirus, explains Esp.

Now it turns out that the nightclub that Saturday knew that a previous visitor had been diagnosed with coronary heart disease.

I knew about the infection on Saturday

On Saturday, October 10, Little London received a phone call from the infection control office, where it became clear that a guest visiting the nightclub on Wednesday had been diagnosed with coronary heart disease.

General manager Geir Lima, thinks it is a sad case.

– We are not the ones who contracted the infection in Little London. We have followed all the routines, laws and regulations imposed on us by the infection control office and the covid-19 brochure published by NHO and the National Institute of Public Health.

Only when an employee of the nightclub on Sunday, October 11, was also diagnosed with an infection, did they decide to close the bar.

Esp, who visited the club this Saturday, understands little that the club did not close when they were informed of the infected host.

– Once they have had an infectious agent, they should have taken immediate action and shut down Little London, says Esp.

That the nightclub also suspected that an employee was infected, he thinks should have been an additional good reason why the nightclub should have closed earlier.

Lima does not agree with the criticisms and believes that they have followed the guidelines.

– We asked if there were any special measures that we had to implement, but got the response from the infection control office that we should not do anything at this time, except that the employees that night had to be very careful and have a low threshold for test for symptoms, Lima says.

It says two Little London employees are infected.

– They are both in excellent shape. One has mild symptoms and the other first had a high fever, but is now on the way to recovery, Lima says.

Considering stricter measures in Trondheim

More than 1,000 people in Trondheim have been quarantined in recent days. Mayor Rita Ottervik asks people to be aware of their responsibilities.

– We have good testing capacity and trained infection trackers, which means we have a good overview of transmission routes. But there are a disturbing number, so people here have to take responsibility if they have been to these places. They must be quarantined and tested, Ottervik tells NRK.

Ottervik says they will consider whether to implement their own measures in Trondheim due to the recent infection.

– We have the crown on the agenda for the weekend presidency meeting. So we must do an evaluation and we will listen to the professional bodies. But in the first round, we have to advise people to be careful.

Over 1000 corona tests have been performed in the last 24 hours in Trondheim. The mayor believes that pressure on testing will continue.

– I think the number will be high for a while, because there are many who are in quarantine, says Ottervik.