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Only five guests at home and a maximum of ten social contacts a week in Oslo
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Norway is now tightening its control to prevent the death toll from rising.
The strategy is “social bubbles”:
A maximum of five guests in addition to your own home, and in Oslo no more than ten social contacts per week.
– We fear we will see more deaths, says Prime Minister Erna Solberg.
Norway remains one of the countries that has escaped the most mild corona pandemic, which is now taking new control of Europe.
So far, only 18,110 people have been confirmed infected, 279 have died and 54 are currently hospitalized.
But both the number of infected and those needing hospital care are increasing every day, even in our western neighbor. On Monday, 202 new infections were reported and another seven were hospitalized.
First it was the youth; now the infection is spreading to other age groups and the concern is great.
– This fall, corona infection has arrived like the darkness of autumn: a little more day by day, says Prime Minister, says Prime Minister Erna Solberg.
– Now the infection is increasing among the oldest, which means that we see that more people end up in hospital and become seriously ill. We are also afraid that we will see more deaths.
Live in “social bubbles”
To limit infection and prevent a general second wave, Norway is also introducing a number of rules, both at the national level and in Oslo in particular.
The strategy is, as in Belgium and the UK, that people should drastically limit their contacts with each other and live in “social bubbles”.
The new national regulations, which will apply until the beginning of December, will come into effect on the night of Wednesday, October 28:
• In private homes, gardens, or vacation homes, you should have no more than five guests in addition to your own home. If all the guests come from the same household, for example, if the family has many children, you can make an exception and be several.
• Private meetings in public places or in rented and borrowed premises can have a maximum of 50 participants; the previous limit was 200. At outdoor events where all attendees sit in fixed places, a maximum of 600 people can participate.
• Foreign workers in what the EU calls red countries, with more than 150 infected per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days, such as Poland, the United Kingdom, France and Spain, no longer escape the quarantine obligation. Since September 1, passengers with coronavirus have been identified aboard 344 flights to Norway, especially from Poland.
This means that even foreign workers must now be quarantined for ten days before they can start working. It is valid from midnight on Saturday, October 31.
Photo: Terje Bendiksby / TT
Prime Minister Erna Solberg.
In Oslo it will be even more strict
• In Oslo, everyone is advised not to have more than ten social contacts a week. Social contact includes a person with whom you are in the same room for a room or more.
However, this does not apply to members of your own household, colleagues in the workplace, or employees within the preschool and school.
• Everyone who does not have to be at work should work from home and teaching in universities and colleges should be done digitally.
• The limit for the number of people at public events without fixed seats is reduced from 50 to 20.
• Requirements for mouth guards in closed public places, such as stores and shopping centers, if a distance of one meter cannot be maintained.
• Requirement that all employees and guests in indoor restaurants wear mouth guards when not seated at a table.
• No new guests are allowed in restaurants after 10 pm in the evening.
The new restrictions in Oslo apply from Thursday, October 29 at 12 noon.
Growing trend
The number of new confirmed infections in the Norwegian capital has risen from 300 people a week to 400, a figure still low compared to many other capitals in Europe, but it is still an upward trend.
– The waves that are now hitting Europe can also come here, said City Councilor Raymond Johansen at a news conference Monday.
The new rules will affect Oslo’s restaurants and bars and have already had consequences.
– In fact, I’m a bit bored at the moment, and I’m in the middle of a meeting with the middle managers. Now we have to review opening hours and consider more layoffs of employees, says Karl-Henning Svendsen of NOHO Norway, which runs several of Oslo’s biggest nightclubs, such as Kulturhuset, Grisen, Colonel Mustard and Youngs, to Børsen.
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