The mass testing of pupils and kindergarten children in Steinkjer before the reopening of schools and kindergartens today, gave some results that other municipalities will also notice:
Four students and one kindergarten child were diagnosed with covid-19 without any of them having symptoms that they were sick or shabby.
– These are cases of infection we probably would not have discovered if it had not been for the school and kindergarten testing. Thus, this mass testing was averted that the five carry the infection to their schools and to the kindergarten, says municipal chief physician Sunniva Rognerud in Steinkjer municipality to Dagbladet.
Trønder-Avisa discussed the results of the school testing first.
A total of 31 people got a positive result after testing in different places and in different age groups in Steinkjer on Monday.
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13 under 18 years
13 of the infected are under 18 years of age. And there were five of these 13 who had no symptoms of infection or any disease.
There were two schoolchildren aged 14, one aged 15 and one aged 17. The fifth was a young kindergarten child.
– Is the municipal superintendent surprised by the test results?
– No. I think such mass testing can make sense. We already know that infection can spread in family contexts and parties at Christmas and New Year. Then came the omikron. And with this, we have been able to stop the infected without consequences for the schools and kindergarten, says Sunniva Rognerud.
She thinks there may be more than the five who were caught in the school testing.
– It is normal that more people are a little snotty at this time without feeling bad and see a doctor, comments the municipal chief.
Omikron: From two to 46
The increase in omicron infection in Steinkjer has skyrocketed in a short time.
Last week, 46 of 82 positive PCR tests in the municipality were caused by the omicron virus.
The week before that, there were only two omicron causes for 31 tests with infection in Steinkjer.
All the positive PCR tests were checked further at St. Olav Hospital.
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More are coming
The municipal chief believes that there will be more positive test results after the start of the school test on Tuesday.
– What happens next with the 31 positive tests from Monday?
– It is up to the testers themselves to proceed with a PCR test, which is automatically examined at St. Olav, if there is still a positive result.
The school and kindergarten testing in Steinkjer is not required, but after strong encouragement.
– We have noticed great support for this massive rapid testing in the younger year classes. I have the impression from the local newspapers that there has been a little more limited enthusiasm in the upper classes, says municipal chief physician Sunniva Rognerud in Steinkjer.
