The Minister of Health and Care Services stated that health personnel with patient contact will be offered a third dose of vaccine.
– We have a very useful meeting with the municipalities and the government is following the situation closely. There is no need for national measures now, but it is time to roll up our sleeves. Therefore, it is important that the municipalities with high outbreaks introduce measures where needed, said Minister of Health Ingvild Kjerkol initially.
And she added:
– We have national measures. It is to stay at home, if one is ill. The government also has a novelty today. The government has decided that health personnel with patient contact will be offered a third dose of vaccine. I also have another long awaited news. The Minister of Education and Research announced an exception to the current absence rules.
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NIPH director Camilla Stoltenberg said that it is right to offer a third dose to health professionals now, because there has been an increasing coronary infection before the flu season has started.
Health Director Bjørn Guldvog was aware that it is important that the municipalities introduce local measures after he was asked about the situation in Tromsø. The municipality in northern Norway has also announced that they will have a press conference on Friday.
Increasing infection trend
The infection trend is increasing in the counties of Trøndelag and probably in Oslo, Viken, Troms and Finnmark and Vestland, the National Institute of Public Health (NIPH) announced in its weekly report on Wednesday. FHI estimates in the weekly report that the so-called reproduction number (R-number) for Oslo is 1.5.
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There is great uncertainty regarding the estimated regional reproduction figures, FHI emphasized.
Trondheim: 140 new infected
140 new corona infections have been registered in Trondheim in the last 24 hours. That is 78 fewer than on Wednesday, when a new infection record was set.
97 of the new infected are under 20 years of age. 31 of these are under 10 years old, Trondheim municipality states.
– I hope that the latecomers now know their visiting hours and get vaccinated. Thus, they contribute even more to curbing the spread of infection, says municipal director Morten Wolden.
Trondheim municipality has recently had high infection rates, and it peaked on Wednesday when 218 people were registered infected. It was a new record in the municipality.
On Tuesday, the municipality issued a recommendation on the use of face masks in public places where it is not possible to keep at least one meter away. The municipality states that they have now reached the national goal of having 90 percent of the adult population vaccinated.
St. Olav’s hospital in Trondheim had eleven hospitalized coronary patients on Thursday. One of the patients is in the intensive care unit with a respirator.
Oslo: 356 new cases of infection
356 new corona infections have been registered in Oslo in the last 24 hours. That is 38 more than the day before, and 162 more than the same day last week.
From week 42 to 43, there was an increase in the number of cases of infection in all districts in Oslo, largest in the district of Alna, where there were from 165 to 257 registered cases of infection, according to Oslo Municipality statistics.
In the last 14 days, 3111 new infections have been registered in Oslo. This gives an average of 222 new infections per day, reports NTB.
The peak of infection in Oslo was 30 August this year with 680 cases in one day.
The municipality of Oslo has informed NTB about the number of infections on Wednesday. The municipality corona statistics Thursday morning was not updated.
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The statistics from Wednesday show that the district Alna has the highest infection pressure, with 968 infected per 100,000 inhabitants in the last two weeks. Stovner has the second highest infection pressure, with 804 infected per 100,000 inhabitants.
The lowest infection pressure is in the districts of St. Hanshaugen, Grünerløkka and Nordre Aker, with 235, 253 and 254 infected per 100,000 inhabitants in the last two weeks, respectively.
The weekly report from the National Institute of Public Health on Wednesday showed 18 new patients admitted to hospital in Oslo in week 43, after 19 in week 42 and 14 in week 41.
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Diagram: See the development in new cases of infection in Oslo
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