HAD TO PICK UP MORE: A test station at Jessheim had to close because they ran out of test equipment on Wednesday morning, and the employees had to drive to Ahus to pick up more test packages. Photo: Gabriel Aas Skålevik / VG
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A coronation test station at Jessheim in Ullensaker municipality had to close its doors for an hour when they ran out of test equipment on Wednesday.
Between 30 and 40 people came to closed doors when they were to test themselves between 10.30 and 11.30 on Wednesday morning at Jessheim in Ullensaker, writes Romerikes Blad.
The employees at the test station had to travel to Ahus to pick up more equipment.
The reason for the lack of equipment was misunderstandings in the communication between Ahus and the municipality, according to municipal director of health and social care Gunnhild Grimstad-Kirkeby.
– This is due to a change from Ahus, where they did not run out test packages as before, so the municipality had to pick it up itself. Since this was discovered at the last minute, there was a period of just over an hour empty of test packages, she says to Romerikes Blad.
Ahus believes that they have delivered packages as before, but that the municipality had asked for 400 extra test packages without stating that the delivery was urgent.
– Had we been told that it was urgent, extra delivery would have been arranged today, Brenna writes in an e-mail to Romerikes Blad.
Everyone who did not get tested was offered a new test the same day.
Must introduce local measures – again
Ullensaker municipality has had some of the strictest measures in the country through the corona pandemic, and the municipality repealed the last local measures on 16 June.
Now they have had to tighten again due to increasing infection pressure.
Last week, the municipality registered 119 new cases of infection, compared with 24 the week before. 29 per cent in the municipality have been fully vaccinated, while over 60 per cent have received at least one vaccine dose.
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