Emergency preparedness register for COVID-19 (Beredt C19)

Beredt C19 has been discontinued

The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) has discontinued the temporary emergency preparedness register Beredt C19. The information collected in the emergency register database is now only available from the individual registers. The decision to discontinue the register is in line with the government's Covid-19 strategy expiring on 30 June 2024.

After the discontinuation of Beredt C19, monitoring of Covid-19 and other respiratory agents, as well as of vaccination and side effects, will be done using ordinary legal bases. 

Based on the experience from the work in Beredt C19, NIPH will build more permanent systems that can provide similar real-time knowledge also outside of crises.

Why was there a preparedness register for COVID-19?

Beredt C19 was established so that NIPH could quickly obtain the necessary knowledge about the Covid-19 pandemic, to support policy decisions and management.

The national surveillance systems and health registries established before the epidemic collect information to fulfil each register's purpose. However, in order to get a quick and reliable overview of the situation, there was a need to frequently extract and compile data from the various data sources. 

“The purpose of Beredt C19 was to quickly provide an overview and knowledge of how the pandemic and the measures that have been implemented affect the population's health, use of healthcare services and health-related behaviour.” (From the Data Protection Impact Assessment for Beredt C19)

The knowledge obtained from Beredt C19 enabled the authorities to assess risk, implement measures and continuously evaluate and adjust those measures. The preparedness register was established in close collaboration with the Norwegian Directorate of Health, the Norwegian Intensive Care and Pandemic Register and other entities that are data controllers for the sources included in the register.

The results have been used in NIPH’s weekly reports, risk assessments, coronavirus modelling and more. Statistics have also been shared with municipalities, the media and through other inquiries. Transparency and methodological quality assurance has also been achieved through scientific publishing.

Data sources included in Beredt C19

• Norwegian Surveillance System for Communicable Diseases - MSIS
• Norwegian Patient Registry - NPR
• Norwegian Intensive Care and Pandemic Registry - NIPaR
• The State Register of Employers and Employees - AA register
• National Population Register
• Norwegian Registry of Primary Health Care - KPR 
• MSIS laboratory database
• Norwegian Immunisation Registry - SYSVAK
• Medical Birth Registry of Norway
• Norwegian Cause of Death Registry
• Register of adverse events after vaccination reported by a healthcare professional - BIVAK
• The Norwegian Adverse Drug Reaction Registry
• Norwegian Prescription Database (NorPD)/Norwegian Prescribed Drug Registry
• (Healthcare) Institutional Register in the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration (NAV)
• Directorate for Civil Protection and Emergency Planning (DSB), for example travel to Norway/entry registration
• Contact tracing data from municipal digital contact tracing systems