CORONA CONTAINMENT MEASURES ARE STARTING TO WORK, contends Norway’s state health director. Dr Bjørn Guldvog, who’s been in quarantine himself, told state broadcaster NRK Wednesday afternoon that new statistics indicate lower death and infection rates “than we could have had without the measures.”
Guldvog noted that there’s still great uncertainty tied to the Corona virus, “but we see quite powerful declines” in both infection and death rates when compared to prognoses without the
measures first put into place on March 12 and
extended last week until April 13.
Norway’s death toll, meanwhile, rose to
43 on Wednesday afternoon after nine new deaths since Tuesday.
A total of 4,656 people have now tested positive to the Corona virus (Covid-19), an increase of 471 in the most recent 24-hour reporting period.
The number of Corona patients admitted to Norwegian hospitals stood at 328 on Wednesday, up again from 321 on Tuesday after a few declines that also had encouraged Frode Froland of Norway’s public health institute (FHI). He told state broadcaster NRK that the need for hospitalization was “very low compared to what we’ve seen in many other countries,” also when taking the numbers of infected people into account.
A total of 90,242 people had been tested for the Corona virus in Norway as of Tuesday, putting the portion of those infected at 4.8 percent.