– If you are from areas that have elevated measures now, you should not visit family elsewhere in the country and do not go to stay in hotels elsewhere in the country, said Minister of Health Bent Høie on NRK’s Nyhetsmorgen on Thursday.
– This means that if you are from, for example, Oslo or Viken, but are originally from Bergen, you should not go home and live with parents or in-laws, he added.
– Do not visit family
Different advice and rules have created confusion, and assistant health director Espen Rostrup Nakstad provides a clarification of what applies and what one can and should not do.
– What Bent Høie has said today is that if you come from an area with a lot of infection, then it is not a good idea to travel and visit family and relatives. But limiting how many people you are with is a general advice for the whole country. We should also think about this before Easter, Nakstad tells Dagbladet.
– What you should do is be with those you are usually with. This applies whether you are at home, at work, or in a cabin.
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– An Easter without a visit
He explains that the increasing infection, and the outbreaks in several places in the country, mean that the advice is changing, and can change even more quickly.
– Now that we are seeing increasing infection in more and more regions, most recently in Haugalandet, it is good advice to limit travel to relatives and friends who live elsewhere. We agree with the Minister of Health in that, says Nakstad and adds:
– As the situation has developed in recent days, you should prepare for an Easter without visits and gatherings, no matter where you are.
Fear of losing control
These are the cabin rules
It is still allowed to go to the cabin, but also here the advice is that you should not be with anyone other than those you are usually with.
– If you plan to travel to the cabin to meet family and relatives there, it is not something you should do. You should travel with those you or live with. The same applies if you have Easter at home. The whole point is not to seek out many other people, whether they are relatives or friends elsewhere, but to be with those you are usually with and limit other contact and this applies as a council throughout Norway.
– If you follow the advice that applies now, which is to shop before you leave, have as little contact as possible with others on the trip, avoid public transport, travel in your own car, and do not invite others to the cabin – is not social and mixes with people you normally not with – it will ensure that there is no particular increased risk of going to the cottage at Easter.
Clear message to the cabin people
– The individual must consider
– Does the government say that students should not go home at Easter, and what about those who have been quarantined to be able to go home?
– These are things that the individual must consider, and when there is advice, there is a reason why it is advice and not absolute orders. If you are a student and your mother and father live elsewhere, they are part of your family. Even if you do not see them every single day of your studies. But the same is true then, that if you choose to travel to one or both of your parents, then you should not interfere with other people. Do not travel to parties or seek out others in your hometown.
– To spend Easter and be nice and social, you should not do this Easter. This is the main advice, and then the individual must consider how to have an Easter in a way that protects against infection. The individual knows very well how to adapt it, I think, Nakstad concludes.
May be banned
Nakstad says he thinks most people will follow the Easter advice and recommendations, but warns that the advice can be regulated, if compliance is poor.
– I think you have to keep in mind now as well, that these tips are given and work well as long as you follow them. If compliance is not good, political authorities may agree to regulate it and make it prohibited. There may be a consequence of that. We want freedom and flexibility, but we want to follow advice, and if everyone does, we do not need stronger legal authority or regulations for that, he emphasizes.
He summarizes the Easter advice as follows:
1. Have so little contact with other people, that you usually do not have contact with, whether it is everyday or holiday.
2. When it comes to Easter, you should limit how many people you meet indoors.
If you come from areas with a lot of infection, you should not visit relatives and friends, because then you can pass on the infection.
4. If you choose to travel in a cabin, you should only travel with those you usually live with.
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