This week, new infection records have been set in this country, with over 2,000 new infections every day.
The growing infection worries the government.
On Friday at 11 am, Minister of Justice and Emergency Management Emilie Enger Mehl and Minister of Health and Care Services Ingvild Kjerkol will hold a press conference on the corona situation.
It is not yet known what the government will present here, but earlier this week, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre (Labor) stated to TV 2 that the use of a corona certificate in Norway will be ready in a few days.
– Worrying infection trend
Assistant health director Espen Rostrup Nakstad told TV 2 on Friday morning that the infection trend we have now is worrying if it continues.
– Right now the situation is manageable and we are able to provide good health services. But if this infection trend continues, it is worrying. The longer this lasts, the more demanding it is, and the more tired health professionals become.
– Therefore, we are now working hard to get control of this pandemic, reduce the infection rates and make the admissions also go down, because then we can live more normally through the winter season, Nakstad says.
– A very pressured situation
On Friday it was registered 2426 new coronary heart disease people in Norway, which is 126 below the new infection record set on Wednesday.
On Thursday, 218 corona patients were hospitalized.
58 of the patients are in the intensive care unit, and among them 36 are on a respirator.
Hospital staff are shouting warnings due to bursting capacity of hospitals and staff who are exhausted.
– It is a very pressured situation in many hospitals now. The pandemic has been going on for a year and a half, and the staff is struggling. There is also less access to substitutes from Sweden, so there is a lot that is problematic, says Nakstad.
The infection number, or R-number, which says how many an infected person transmits further, is now 1.3, according to FHI.
Assistant Director of Health Espen Rostrup Nakstad and Director of the National Institute of Public Health, Camilla Stoltenberg, are also present at the press conference.
The case is being updated!
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