Over fifty in Norway have been infected with Covid after a Christmas party that is likely to prove the world’s biggest outbreak of the new Omicron variant.
One of the
party-goers has tested positive for the omicron variant, and more cases are
expected to follow, Oslo’s authorities said on Thursday.
"We
are working actively with contact tracing to limit the spread and prevent
bigger outbreaks,” the city said in a statement.
Doctors
said between 50 and 60 people tested positive for coronavirus after the party
last week at a restaurant in Oslo, according to the Norwegian state broadcaster
NRK.
The
doctors said the infections were not delta variant cases, and that there were
“clear clues” and a “strong possibility” they were all the omicron variant.
Tine
Ravlo, the assistant chief infection control doctor in Oslo’s Frogner district,
said a preliminary screening of the cases’ samples showed it was likely it was
omicron.
One of the
people at the party had reportedly been to South Africa recently.
There have
so far been at least three confirmed omicron cases in Norway.
On Friday
Norway imposed a quarantine on any travellers arriving from South Africa or
neighbouring countries, following a similar decision by its neighbour Denmark
and many other countries around the world.
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