City councilor Raymond Johansen (Labor Party) in Oslo has received confirmation that he is infected with the omicron variant of the coronavirus.
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This is what City Council Secretary Kaia Storvik (Labor Party) informs NTB.
– All close contacts are informed and are encouraged to follow the current infection control rules for omicrons, which are different and stricter than in normal outbreaks, says Storvik.
She states that the shape of the city council leader is ok.
– The city council leader has been in isolation since he tested positive on Wednesday night. He acts as city council leader from isolation, she says.
Anyone infected with the coronavirus must be in isolation for at least seven days.
Storvik says that she does not have the total overview of how many have ended up in quarantine due to the city council leader, but says that he has not had very many close contacts.
She states that “someone” in the city council apparatus has ended up in quarantine after the case of infection.
– We follow the situation closely in collaboration with the district superintendent.
Raymond Johansen got the symptoms on Wednesday. Since he had held a corona press conference the day before, journalists present were notified of a case of infection. One of the employees in the city council also received confirmation of infection.
It is currently unknown how the city council leader became infected.
– There is a major omicron outbreak in St. Hanshaugen district, where he lives, but we do not know where he got it from, says Storvik.
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