– Close all sales of alcohol for two weeks. I would have done that if I could decide. It is events with alcohol that are the biggest problem. There, people do not manage to keep their distance.
Municipal chief physician Anders Brabrand in the four Gudbrandsdal municipalities Øyer, Gausdal, Sør-Fron and Nord-Fron gained experience with corona infection before the vast majority in the health care system in this country.
Several schools in the area were closed due to the risk of infection in early March before the national alarm went off. The infection came from returning winter holiday tourists in Austria.
The 31-year-old municipal superintendent launches a strict measure in the newspaperGudbrandsdølen Wednesday in the wake of the contagion boom towards the end of the summer holidays. Alcohol stops throughout Norway.
“Red” places
– I nuance something to cities and areas with an increase in infection, not necessarily the whole country as a whole. But my recipe is the same for “red” places: immediate and two-week stops in alcohol sales both at restaurants, in shops and at Vinmonopolet, says Anders Brabrand when Dagbladet contacts the plan.
He has just started paternity leave in his hometown Lillehammer, and does not have the infection figures to make a list of all cities and areas that should have alcohol alcohol according to his recipe.
But he has, among other things, registered the massive student parties in Oslo.
Should have been canceled
– The sponsor weeks should have been canceled in advance as the Russian celebration was. And those student associations that have not canceled along the way, should do so immediately, says Brabrand.
It is not very many years since he himself was a so-called godchild at the start of his medical studies in Trondheim.
– It was nice and a nice and useful start to a new life in a new city. But it is completely impossible to keep the one-meter rule in such a context, maintains the municipal superior with recent experience from such social mass mingling.
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He has three sectors in order of priority in the serious infection situation:
2. Offers for children and young people, such as kindergartens and schools
3. Finances and jobs
The municipal chief believes that central authorities have made two mistakes along the way, which have affected the spread of infection.
– Incomprehensible holiday opening
Error I, in retrospect, in Brabrand’s assessment, is that the limits for all travelers without special permission were not quarantined earlier in March.
Error II he responded to from the start.
– It is incomprehensible that borders were opened on 15 July without quarantine restrictions to satisfy Norwegians’ desire for a holiday abroad and Harry trade. Infection spread increased two weeks after border opening. It is not accidental. The border opening for tourists in and out of Norway should have been postponed until the start of school.
– What do you say to the Prime Minister’s repetition no later than Wednesday that Norway cannot isolate itself and that consideration for Norwegian business and jobs are important factors?
– I agree that Norway can not isolate itself from the rest of the world and that jobs are very important. But I think the total social account goes in the red with infection flourishing after border relief already on July 15, says Anders Brabrand.
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Also politicians
He is a prominent politician in Lillehammer as a member of the municipal council and the chairmanship of the Labor Party. He was the Labor Party’s deputy mayoral candidate in the last election.
– Is it the politician or municipal chief Brabrand who assesses the decisions here?
– It’s the doctor. I understand the question, and try to be careful to separate the roles. Let me unsolicited say that Norway is in a favorable corona situation thanks to Prime Minister Erna Solberg and Minister of Health Bernt Høie and others, says Anders Brabrand.
