HIGH INFECTION PRESSURE: In Oslo, the infection trend has been rising in the last three weeks. Photo: Tore Kristiansen, VG
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On Friday, 905 new cases of infection were registered in Norway. This is the second highest number recorded in one day since the start of the pandemic.
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On 5 January, a preliminary infection record was set in this country 928 new registered cases of infection (adjusted from 935) in one day.
On Friday this week, 905 cases of infection were registered in Norway – 255 cases more than the average of 650 in the previous seven days.
Last Friday, 690 cases of infection were registered in this country. The proportion of positive tests last week was 2.1 per cent.
On Wednesday 10 March, 685 new cases of infection were registered in Norway, while the number on Thursday was 872. Fewer people are generally registered infected on public holidays and on weekends than on weekdays.
A total of 78,946 cases of infection have been confirmed in Norway since the start of the pandemic.
– We were down from this second wave at the end of January, the beginning of February. Now it has risen for three weeks nationally, and if this continues, we are at full speed into a third wave of infection. There is no doubt about it, said assistant health director Espen Rostrup Nakstad to VG Thursday morning.
The national infection trend has been rising since February 24, according to VG’s overview.
50 municipalities now have a rising infection trend.
On average, it takes one to two days from the time a test result is ready until it is registered in the infectious disease reporting system (MSIS). The figures may therefore give a misleading picture of the infection situation in recent days, since it does not appear when the sample has been taken – only when it has been registered.
The R-number since 8 February is estimated at 1.33 – the highest estimate since March 2020.
This means that an average of 10 people will infect just over 13 new people – which in turn will infect over 17 people.
– If it is where we are now and persists, then we will be in a completely impossible situation. Then the number of hospital admissions will increase dramatically, and we will struggle to test and trace infections, Nakstad told VG on Thursday.
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