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Parties, public transportation, shopping malls, and gyms are just a few of the areas where county boards of trustees must ensure that infection control rules are followed. Stock Photography.
With the new pandemic law, county administrative boards will be responsible for inspecting stores and gyms.
But switching operations two days in advance has not been easy, and monitoring animal welfare and the environment runs the risk of suffering.
– There have been many who have heard from them today, Anna Carlsson states on the Dalarna County Board of Trustees harshly.
She has been named the national coordinator for the oversight to be carried out by county administrative boards when the temporary anti-pandemic law goes into effect.
The Dalarna County Administrative Board has been tasked with producing inspection documentation, routines and protocols on how salaried employees should check that activities comply with the now legally binding rules. This is so that supervision is equitable across the country.
The inspections are based on checking that, for example, shopping centers have calculated the maximum number of customers that can stay in a store, if the number is documented in writing and if the premises are designed so that visitors can keep their distance.
The supervision also applies to private parties and controls that the premises are not rented to more than eight participants. But it is also convenient to review leisure or cultural activities, public transport and national air traffic.
“Trying to be ready”
The Anti-Pandemic Law was drawn up by the Riksdag on Friday and went into effect on Sunday. Two days for county administrative boards to change, which in the normal case oversee, for example, animal welfare, security companies, environmentally hazardous activities, and drinking water.
– Regular supervision will suffer, of course. There will be scrolling effects. The risk is that we don’t have time, Ulrika Samuelsson, head of department and responsible for work with the new pandemic law at the Västra Götaland County Administrative Board, tells TT.
About 20 employees will be part of the group that carries out the inspections in Västra Götaland and the first inspection is scheduled for the middle of next week.
There can be both supervision over the phone and in the field.
– We are fully preparing and trying to have an organization ready tomorrow, says Samuelsson.
Big wedding party
Social Affairs Minister Lena Hallengren has asked county administrative boards to expand their organizations, which they will do in Dalarna, among other things, by hiring new people for a group of ten people. In Västra Götaland, time has not existed.
– We haven’t had time to recruit new people, that is. We have changed parts of our staff for this, and then we will see in the long run if we need new recruits, says Ulrika Samuelsson.
She believes that it is necessary to prioritize which inspections are carried out, and lists shopping malls and gyms as facilities that rank high on the list.
In the east of Gothenburg, a large wedding party with 150 participants took place on Saturday night, reported by Göteborgs-Posten. It’s unclear if the party took place on Sunday when the law went into effect, but Samuelsson says they haven’t been there with staff.
The police have also not been able to intervene because the county administrative board must request assistance first.
TT: Can you close a party like this on the spot?
– I don’t think so, we have to go to the operator, that is, the one who rents the premises, and impose a fine. This is how legislation is carried out, says Ulrika Samuelsson.
Public councils
County administrative boards will contact municipalities about where people are moving and if congestion occurs.
The public can also reach out to councils, but Ulrika Samuelsson hardly believes that white-collar workers are unemployed.
How the public’s information should be handled is not something the Dalarna County Administrative Board has had time to decide.
Another sign that the process has been swift is shown, among other things, in the fact that the Swedish Public Health Agency is to produce a national oversight guide for county administrative boards. That guide has yet to be completed, even though the law has been in place since Sunday.
Instead, it is expected to ship on Monday, the authority announces.
National coordinator Anna Carlsson compares how the work developed when municipalities were assigned the responsibility of overseeing restaurants and restaurants.
– The difference is that this time it was much faster, from when the law began until it came into force. We have worked a lot in a short time, he says.
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