If a municipality believes that it is not professionally justifiable to isolate a person who is infected with corona at home, they must offer accommodation in a hotel or another suitable city.
This is what we refer to as an insulation room, insulation hotel or insulation dormitory in this article.
Isolation hotels are thus free, and something the municipality has a duty to offer its inhabitants, in contrast to quarantine hotels, which one must stay at when entering Norway, and which one must pay for oneself.
Source: The Norwegian Directorate of Health.
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Many in line for isolation hotel
On Tuesday, the municipality will start with mass testing of students in Trondheim. 35,000 students have been told to take the test.
At least 250 students from 56 fields of study in Trondheim have the coronavirus no. Is particularly hard frame.
– We hope that there is not a violent spread of infection. But at the same time, we fear that there may be large numbers, said Morten Wolden, municipal director in Trondheim to NRK tysdag.
The director of health and welfare is also excited about whether the pressure on isolation hotels can be even greater as a result of the mass testing.
– We are excited about whether the infection rate will continue to increase, she says.
Wait four days in an isolation room
On Tuesday, Malin Farbu Aune (24) was released from solitary confinement. Before she could live there, she also had to isolate herself in her own home.
She lives in an apartment of about 70 square meters with two other people.
– I used bandages and gloves every time I went out of my room, when I was going to the bathroom, for example, says Aune.
Only on Saturday, four days after she had tested positive for a rapid test, and one day after she tested positive for a PCR test, did Aune get her own place to isolate herself from others.
Last week had to test positive on a PCR test before one got isolation room. The municipality has now changed the rules, so that people can get rooms in isolation hotels after a positive quick test.
Aune thought it was very stressful to live in the collective, and feared to infect those she lived with.
– It was very risky for those I live with.
Fortunately, the day did not spread.
My municipality should be a better predictor
Like Thuestad and Aune, many of the infected students in Trondheim live in public transport.
– Everyone in my collective had to put their lives on pause when I test positive, says Thuestad.
She thinks the municipality in general should have had a better warning of the infection week during the sponsorship week, and that they should therefore also have increased the capacity of isolation hotels before the start of studies.
– I am disappointed with the municipality’s infection management, she says.
– What care did you take yourself to avoid becoming infected during the sponsor week?
– I followed the infection control rules. We were not a large sponsor group, and kept to ourselves so that we could quickly be quarantined if any of us were infected, says Thuestad.
Aune also participated in parties during the sponsor week, but emphasizes that this was before the high infection rates among the students in Trondheim were known.
– We were as many as we were allowed to be, ie 15 people. We did not meet any other sponsor groups, and were at home with someone who had a fairly large apartment, she says.
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FREE AGAIN: Malin Farbu Aune escaped isolation on Tuesday.
Photo : Private
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Has five times the number in isolation rooms
– We understand well that students and others get frustrated. We also think it is a desperate situation, says Dehli.
– Were they surprised by the great need for insulation hotels that came during the sponsor week?
– We have had 50 isolation rooms during the entire pandemic. It has had our quite high infection peaks before. We did not expect this, but quickly realized that we had to increase capacity as the infection began to increase sharply among the students.
She praises the hotels in the city for having set up, coordinated the offer and freed up rooms at the same time as they have many ordinary hotel guests in the city.
The municipality now has five times the number of isolation rooms. It is far from enough to meet the need, says Dehli.
– We are investigating all possibilities to increase capacity further, she emphasizes.
