This is a tentative figure that may increase as sequencing work progresses. The meal brought together a hundred participants, all vaccinated.
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The Christmas dinner ended badly. At least 17 people are suspected of having contracted the Omicron variant after a party last week in Oslo, after which more than half of the roughly 100 participants, who were all vaccinated, tested positive for Covid-19, announced the municipality on Friday, December 3.
This is a tentative figure that may increase as sequencing work progresses. “So far, 60 people have tested positive with a PCR test and four more with a rapid test, Oslo city services said in an email to AFP. Seventeen are probably [des cas du variant] Omicron but not yet confirmed. So far, a case of Omicron has been confirmed by sequencing. “
Between 100 and 120 people, one of whom had recently traveled to southern Africa, gathered at a restaurant in Oslo last Friday for a Christmas dinner hosted by their employer, the solar energy producer Scatec.
“All had been vaccinated, none showed symptoms and they had all performed a self-test” before the meal, an official of the municipal health authorities, Tine Ravlo, told AFP. “Everything had been done in order and no rule was violated”, she stressed. None of the guests who tested positive have, at this stage, developed a severe form of the disease, according to Tine Ravlo. Most have mild symptoms in the form of headaches, inflammation of the throat, cough, she said.