Do not hesitate with sideboard tightening – VG

– The City Council is monitoring the situation closely, has close contact with the police and our own inspectors. We will not hesitate to limit serving and opening times again if the rules are consistently broken. We can do this at a few hours’ notice, writes City Council Leader Raymond Johansen (Ap) in Oslo in an e-mail to VG Sunday.

Several cases were reported during the weekend disruptions of the order and large crowds of people in Oslo.

Takes no chances

– We have previously introduced pour stops and other very drastic measures in Oslo, and we may do so again if we see new outbreaks of infection. The City Council will not take chances with the population’s life and health, says Johansen.

He refers to low infection rates in Oslo and believes that the measures taken have produced good results.

Keep up to date: See list of infection rates from Norwegian municipalities and elsewhere in the world VG’s corona overview

When asked if the city council leader can elaborate on how far he will allow new outbreaks of infection before introducing a new sideboard, he answers the following:

– What we’re going to do first is close individual sites that break the rules. If this is not sufficient, we must consider other measures and stricter measures. It is not possible now to say when it will be. Here we have to make judgments when we have left behind a little more than a weekend with normal opening hours.

He emphasizes that the main problem is not large violations of the restaurants, but the accumulation of people in the city and the formation of queues, and that many do not adhere to the infection control rules.

– The infection control rules also apply when you have an arrow in your hand. And they also apply after midnight.

The Directorate of Health recommends, among other things, to continue distance of at least one meter to people outside the same household, both indoors and outdoors.

The city council leader is pleased to see people enjoying the city again.

– But the corona crisis is not over. I would strongly encourage everyone to follow rules and advice, and be aware that having the rules disregarded can have major consequences, Johansen writes.

Lots of noise and little distance

Police logged about 170 incidents in Oslo, Asker and Bærum night to Saturday, operations manager André Kråkenes in the Oslo Police District reports to NTB.

– Unfortunately, there have been a lot of disturbances in the order. That’s the level of drunkenness and a lot of people, Kråkenes told VG night through Saturday. He described it as “southern mood.”

Night to Sunday was not as hectic for the Oslo police. But the crows told NTB that there were more people in town the night before and that there was plenty to do. During the night there were at least six fights.

– People have been standing like herring in barrels outside the restaurants, Kråkenes says NRK.

Police observed a lot of people not keeping sufficient distance this weekend outside the city’s nightlife and parks, operations manager Tor Grøttum also confirmed to Aftenposten. According to Grøttum, the police are concerned about the conditions in the queues, although their main focus is order, not infection control.

This weekend is the first where the nightclubs in Oslo have been given normal opening hours since March 12. As of Monday, Oslo got restaurants, pubs and bars bestow until 3am and stay open until 3:30.

It has been over three months since the most stringent corona measures to date was introduced in Norway. Nightlife in the capital was also affected. Oslo council closed the donation at the city’s serving spots March 21 because several violated the infection control rules. The beer taps opened again on May 6 to the great pleasure of many.

Looking back: Watch video from a quiet Saturday night in downtown Oslo in March after alcohol ban in the capital was banned

Most new cases in younger ones

New figures from the Institute of Public Health shows that most new cases of coronary infection are among people between 20 and 29 years.

In June, 103 people in this age group tested positive for the virus. At the end of March, the median age of infected was 51 years. Until mid-June it dropped to 32 years.

To NRK says Deputy Health Director Espen Nakstad that the incidence of infection may not be related to walking in the city.

– But the vulnerability is much greater now that the infection can spread, because we have much more contact with each other. Especially in the evenings and on weekends if sick people move outside the city, Nakstad tells NRK.