HIGH INFECTION PRESSURE: In Oslo, the infection trend has been rising in the last three weeks. Here, 314 new cases of infection were registered here on Friday. 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, including Oslo.
On Friday, 314 new cases of the coronavirus were registered here in Oslo, according to the municipality’s own figures. There are 71 cases more than the daily average for the previous seven days, which is 243.
Thursday the infection rate in Oslo was 352, while it was 236 Monday. Last Friday, the infection rate was 226.
– There is now a very high infection pressure in the city, in all districts. We see a large increase in how many people become so ill that they are admitted to hospital, wrote health councilor Robert Steen (Labor) in an email to VG Friday.
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The figures reported by the municipalities themselves may differ from VG’s own figures. We retrieve the figures directly from the Communicable Diseases Notification System (MSIS), which registers cases according to where people are registered and do not necessarily live.
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.
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