In Oslo, 120 people tested positive for the Omicron variant of the Coronavirus following a company dinner in a restaurant. The news was published on Eurosurveillance and is reported in the newspapers Republic e The print. It all happened on November 26: 117 guests they arrived at the venue – 150 square meters – around six and stayed inside until around 10.30pm. Shortly thereafter, the same restaurant opened its doors to a second round of customers. There were 107 vaccinated with two doses, most of them present, but none had yet been given the third. They all had between 30 and 50 years old. Omicron was still a little known variant, as its presence had only been identified in South Africa. From here, however, one of the dinner guests had returned two days earlier. His swab (which he had done like the other participants) was negative.
According to what was later reconstructed, the variant infected 81 people. Of these two are not vaccinated and only one is asymptomatic. Among the customers who entered the room for the second shift, between 10 and 30 and 3 in the morning, others 70 were infected, 53 with the Omicron variant. It is not clear how many were present in the venue that evening, because not all the guests were tracked down or identified. The person from South Africa experienced the first symptoms after two days. Most of the guests – 37 people – started feeling sick 3 days later.