This is the National Institute of Public Health ’s infection control council in the new phase after the reopening, which is called «normal everyday life with increased preparedness».
Have good hand hygiene and keep your hands clean.
Use a paper handkerchief or elbow hook when coughing or sneezing. Throw away the handkerchief and wash your hands afterwards.
Testing and insulation:
Everyone who is ill should stay home and have a low threshold to get tested.
Anyone with new-onset respiratory symptoms or other symptoms of covid-19, regardless of vaccination status, is advised to be tested. The same applies to unvaccinated household members or equivalent close to an infected person, and partially vaccinated household members or equivalent close to an infected person. Other unvaccinated close contacts are also recommended to be tested.
If you test positive on a rapid test, it is recommended to take a PCR test to confirm the test result.
Isolation in case of infection:
There is a requirement that people who have been confirmed infected with covid-19 must isolate themselves. This also applies to the vaccinated and protected.
Infection tracking:
If you are infected, or a parent of someone who is infected, you are encouraged to notify other close contacts and encourage testing.
Close contacts:
Vaccinated family members or similar relatives are not recommended to refrain from contact with others, but should be tested if they develop symptoms.
Unvaccinated household members and similar close contacts to known infected people are recommended to refrain from contact with others for 7 days or to get tested.
Advice for risk groups:
Separate advice applies to people in risk groups. A distinction is made between groups with different degrees of risk, and between vaccinated and unvaccinated persons. Unvaccinated people with an increased risk of covid-19 can reduce the risk of respiratory infections by avoiding congestion and keeping their distance.
Other infection control advice:
Distance and fewer contacts have been a piece of advice throughout the pandemic. Keeping your distance from others where possible can prevent the transmission of respiratory infections, but it is no longer a general recommendation. Local recommendations can be given to keep a distance and reduce the number of contacts, if the infection situation makes it necessary.
The risk of infection is lower outdoors than indoors. In general, it is also recommended in this phase to ensure good ventilation. In private homes, it is recommended to ventilate regularly or between the use of different groups.
Mouthpieces have been recommended in several situations where it is not possible to maintain the recommended distance. There is no national recommendation for the use of face masks. Recommendations for the use of face masks can still be given locally, if the infection situation makes it necessary.
Source: FHI / NTB
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Less dangerous
NIPH considers that there will be a risk of increased infection when society is fully reopened.
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– At the same time, the high degree of vaccination in the population reduces the risk of infection and the risk of developing a serious disease. The vaccines and the good vaccine coverage in the population mean that the epidemic is now less dangerous, says Vold.
Guldvog believes we may see outbreaks in the future.
– For most people, we can shrug our shoulders, live more as normal and enjoy the time we are in. At the same time, it is important to remember that a tenth of the adult population has not been vaccinated. This means that we can have an infection flourishing in some groups, says Guldvog.
Although Norway has gained control of the pandemic, he reminds that the situation is quite different in many other countries.
– We will not end the pandemic until the world has reached its goal. It takes some time, says Guldvog.
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