Over 4,000 new infected in Norway in one day – Clear Speech
On Tuesday, 4,045 people were informed that they had been infected with corona in Norway. Espen Nakstad in the Norwegian Directorate of Health believes it shows that there is more infection.
– This is the highest number we have seen. Then it should be said that people are probably a little better at testing themselves now than a month ago. He says this to the channel NRK.
Only once before have more than 4,000 new infections been reported in Norway. It was Wednesday last week.
Last week, there was also an error in the way infection is registered. As a result, the figures for Tuesday were lower than they should be. Thus, the figures for Wednesday were higher than they should have been. The average for the two days was just over 3,000 infected.
In the last week, an average of 3,003 samples have been found every day. The week before, that number was 1,997.
In recent days, a new variety of corona has received a lot of attention. It has been named omikron.
It has not been found in Norway so far. But there is suspicion of it in Ullensaker municipality. They will check three tests extra carefully.
All three are from people who have been traveling and been ashore in southern Africa. It is clear that the three are infected, but it is unclear whether it is the new variant. It is expected that it will take a few days to get an answer to this.