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One of the criteria for the Norwegian authorities to classify a country at the highest risk level, “red”, is that there are more than 20 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days.
Norway is now there, with 20.77 people infected per 100,000. 1,084 people have been confirmed infected in the past two weeks, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health announced Tuesday.
When people return from a “red” country to Norway, they have to isolate themselves for 20 days. The increase in infection rates is due to several local outbreaks, including in Fredrikstad, Bergen, and Sarpsnorg. But for those areas, no special entry or exit rules apply, NRK claims.
Norwegian FHM: not uncontrolled
In Sarpsborg and Fredrikstad, more than 2,500 people have been quarantined after a crown outbreak in connection with the celebration of the Muslim holiday Ashura. More than 200 people have been confirmed infected after the holidays.
In Bergen, the infection of 200 students has been confirmed after the start of the semester, and it has spread outside the student environment to 363 cases, reports Dagbladet.
– We do not see this as an uncontrolled spread as long as we know where it comes from, and that you can trace the cases to the source of the infection and know the cause of the local outbreak, says Norwegian “Tegnell”, Frode Forland.
In Denmark, the number of infections is 29.6 per 100,000 inhabitants in the last two weeks, according to the EU infection control unit ECDC, and in Sweden the figure is 24.7. In these calculations, Norway has 20.0 infected per 100,000 inhabitants.
– It’s great that Sweden is falling at roughly the same level as Norway for a long time. But Sweden will likely be affected by local outbreaks here and there as well, which may have an effect on the statistics, Forland said yesterday, TT reports.
