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Will remove limit testing for flick trips

– Test on arrival after a short stay (less than one day) in a quarantine area, we have previously pointed out that it has little value in detecting infection. Exceptions from test requirements for travelers staying less than 24 hours can be introduced already now, although this can be challenging to implement in practice, the National Institute of Public Health writes in its assessment.

If the government follows the two agencies’ recommendations, for example, Norwegians who go on a day trip to Sweden to shop may not have to test themselves when they return to Norway.

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Both the Norwegian Directorate of Health and NIPH also recommended this in the last major entry assignment, in addition to removing border testing for all travelers who have been to green countries in the last ten days before arrival, but the government has so far not implemented these changes.

In it professional basis they delivered to the government on Wednesday, the National Institute of Public Health and the Norwegian Directorate of Health list the advantages and disadvantages of maintaining a general test requirement at the border.

There they point out that an argument, against removing the test requirement for day trips abroad, is that the proportion of positive tests at the border is increasing – from 0.27 percent in week 31 to 0.68 percent in week 33. One argument is that many municipalities is now under pressure, and that when more people travel in the long term, one must target available test capacity to travelers where the risk is greatest.

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