– It is a good move here now, says leader Jostein Stø at Svinesund International Test Center to NTB at 11.30 on Friday morning.
From midnight, night to Friday, there was again an order that all travelers must take a corona test on the way into Norway. At by far the busiest border crossing on the E6 at Svinesund, there was an immediate increase.
– At the moment there is a good deal of queuing, so we give some offers to test at home within 24 hours, so we can ease the wait a bit. The rules say that you should not have to spend more than an hour and a half on the test area, but it still takes some time, says Stø.
From almost normal conditions at the border, there were suddenly a large number of vehicles with passengers that must be tested after the tightening on Friday. Several hundred had taken the test during the first hours.
Stø says that there are also some buses that come, and then it is fast up to 20-30 people who have to be tested and then wait 15 minutes for the result.
Those who test positive for the corona test must go into isolation. Those who have a home address in Norway can be allowed to travel home to stay isolated there, while those without a place of residence are accommodated in isolation hotels.
– If there is an infection in a bus, we are responsible for transporting the infection to an isolation hotel, says Stø.
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