NORWAY
The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (Folkehelseinstituttet, FHI) has introduced stricter quarantine rules for healthcare staff.
All people working in the healthcare sector who have travelled to areas with active spread of coronavirus must now remain in home quarantine for 14 days after returning to Norway, media including VG report on Monday.
FHI has said that the new rules are a direct reaction to an increase in infection numbers in Norway during the last few days.
At the time of writing, the number of confirmed cases in the Scandinavian country is 19. That includes 5 people who work at the Ophthalmology department at Ullevål Hospital in Oslo.
A health worker infected with the virus worked at the department last week after getting infected in northern Italy.
San Marino
Coronavirus: the San Marino hospitalized in Rimini has died
This afternoon, informs the group coordinating health emergencies , has died patient Marino 88enne result positive to the new coronavirus COVID-19 . The man was hospitalized in the Infectious Diseases ward of the “Infermi” hospital in Rimini from 25 February last and presented a complex clinical situation for various pathologies even before the infection. His condition plummeted today. The Coordination Group sends “deep condolences and sincere closeness” to the San Marino family and friends.
In San Marino, out of 25 swabs, 8 cases were positive and 17 were negative. Among the 4 patients, they are in the San Marino hospital : 3 in the new wing set up and one in the Intensive Care Unit . Three patients were treated at home . 76 home quarantines on close family and contacts are also ongoing . It is, the coordination specifies, “a measure applied as a precaution to protect personal and public health and the subjects are all followed by territorial medicine”. One patient was discharged, still no healing.