Last year at Easter she was the angry one Aunt Sofie who asked the cabin people to pack up and get home again as soon as possible.
A year later, mayor Anita Ihle Steen (Labor Party) welcomes the same cabin people to the 7,200 cabins on Sjusjøen and the surrounding area in the country’s largest cabin municipality, Ringsaker.
But Aunt Sofie is lurking with her index finger behind the curtains this time as well.
From “Nazi denial” to Easter welcome
– We are working on posters and notices in places where people and cars tend to stop on the way here, for example Bolleland at Espa (in the neighboring municipality of Stange), the Coop store at Rudshøgda and Deli de Luca and Esso’s 24-hour petrol station in the same place . People need to be reminded of infection control and distance at all times. It may be relevant with security staff there, says the Ringsaker mayor to Dagbladet.
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Prepared for changes
She has sat down carefully the government’s national council for the Easter holidays in general and the cottage tourists.
– They turned out as expected. And we are prepared for the fact that the infection situation may change abruptly, and that there may be more austerity. Ringsaker municipality is prepared to follow the national councils, says mayor Anita Ihle Steen.
The municipality has done this throughout the year-long pandemic period, also outside the big cabin holidays.
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– We have had low infection pressure both in Ringsaker and the entire Mjøs region. And there are large municipalities with broad health care and hospitals, such as Hamar and Lillehammer, she points out.
At least 30,000
On a typical Easter, there are 30,000 cabin people and tourists on Sjusjøen and in Ringsakerfjellet. There will be as many this year, maybe a little more, the mayor thinks.
Throughout the period, the municipality has protected the government’s principle: Are there stricter rules in your home municipality than, for example, your cottage municipality Ringsaker, yes, then you must follow the strict home rules. Or vice versa if there is stricter infection control in the cottage municipality.
– Stay in the cabin!
Ringsaker municipality has good experiences with cabin people’s respect for infection control rules over the past year.
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– Now during the winter holidays, for example, three cases of corona infection were discovered while people were in the cabins. In all three cases, the infection had come from outside people – the health service here took care of it, and it has not led to the spread of infection locally, says Ringsaker’s mayor.
Facts about the corona outbreak in Norway per. March 12, 2021
* 632 corona deaths have been reported to the National Institute of Public Health (NIPH). The age group with the most deaths is people who are 80-89 years old, and 53 percent of all deaths are men. FHI emphasizes that it is not always possible to know whether the patient has died of or with covid-19.
* On 27 December 2020, the first coronary vaccine was introduced in Norway. To date, 443,696 people have received the first dose, and 246,961 have received the second dose.
* To date, 1537 cases of the British virus variant have been detected in Norway, and 87 cases of the South African variant.
* 78,571 people have been diagnosed with the coronavirus in Norway since February last year, the Infectious Diseases Message System (MSIS) shows on Friday. Until Thursday, 4,115,415 tests were performed in the country.
* The average age of those who have been diagnosed with infection was 35 on Thursday. There are 42,038 men who have been diagnosed with the infection, and 36,533 women.
* The infection number, or R-number, says how many an infected person transmits further. Since the last week in February, the R-number has been 1.3, according to FHI.
* 159 corona patients were hospitalized on Friday. There are as many as the day before.
* Patients are distributed as follows in the health regions: Health Central Norway 4, Health North 8, Health South-East 142 and Health West 5.
* 21 patients received treatment in a respirator on Friday. The number is unchanged from the day before.
* A total of 540 patients had been admitted to the intensive care unit until Thursday.
Sources: Norwegian Directorate of Health, NIPH
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