The omikron variant is spreading rapidly in Norway and the variant more than doubled between weeks 48 and 49. The government therefore stops serving alcohol in nightclubs and introduces a number of other measures that apply from midnight overnight to Wednesday and four weeks onwards.
- It has not been many days since we introduced new measures, but since then the infection has increased sharply, said Jonas Gahr Støre at the press conference.
Homework and participant roof
Everyone who can should work from home and everyone is encouraged to stay at home as much as possible and limit their social contacts, but not isolate themselves.
A maximum of 20 people are allowed at public indoor events without fixed allotted seats and a maximum of 50 people are allowed when there are fixed seats.
A maximum of ten guests at home in addition to your own household is allowed, but during Christmas and New Year, up to 20 guests at a time are allowed.
Requirements for mouth protection at indoor events are also introduced.
The government wants to speed up vaccination and has set the goal that everyone over the age of 45 should receive the third dose before mid-January.
According to calculations from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, FHI, in three weeks there may be between 90,000 and 300,000 new cases of infection daily, with a risk of between 50 and 200 new hospital patients every day if the spread of infection does not slow down significantly.
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Director of Infectious Disease Control: "Omikron will take over in Sweden"
Frode Forland, director of infection control at FHI, believes that in this situation it is important to take the safe before the unsafe.
- Even if the omikron variant were to prove to cause milder illness, there is a risk that there will be such a large spread in society that there will still be an increased burden on healthcare, he says in SVT's Aktuellt.
Forland: Omikron will take over in Sweden
Frode Forland expects that Sweden will also have an extensive spread of omicrons and that the variant will take over both here and in Norway and Denmark.
- You must vaccinate as quickly as possible and use the measures needed to prevent a congestion in healthcare, he says about what needs to be done in Sweden.
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Director of Infectious Disease Control: "Omikron will take over in Sweden"
Tove Fall, professor of molecular epidemiology, believes that omikron has redrawn the playing field in the pandemic, because the variant is so contagious.
She is not surprised by the high numbers in FHI's calculations.
She predicts an increased spread of omicrons in Sweden as well.
- I would not be surprised if we hear about a sharp increase in the coming week, she says.