If you check the infection pressure for a country below the tab for world numbers in VG’s number overview or on various government websites, you may find other numbers than in travel advice overview. The reason is usually what date the numbers are from.
In order to be able to predict what changes the Norwegian authorities can make to the travel councils, VG must collect figures from the same number sources as FHI – and use the same calculation method.
FHI uses numbers from The European Infection Control Agency (ECDC), which collects figures from different countries, collects them and publishes figures once a week. The figures here are thus updated less frequently than the figures in VG’s world statistics. But it is still the figures from ECDC that are the right ones to use to calculate which countries are likely to turn yellow or red – and which countries may be required to quarantine hotels. This is because these are the figures the Norwegian authorities relate to.
For regions in the Nordic region, FHI collects figures directly from the Danish, Swedish and Finnish infection control agencies. They do the same for the UK. VG picks up the numbers from the same place.
About the figures on Swedish FHM’s website: Note that the Norwegian authorities’ requirement is that a country must have less than 25 (or 150) cases per 100,000 inhabitants in total last two weeks. It is not cut of the last two weeks, as FHM shows on its website.
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