Norway lifts coronavirus restrictions after 561 days
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Norway on Saturday lifted social distancing rules, business capacity limits and other pandemic-era restrictions that have been in place for more than a year.
“It has been 561 days since we introduced the toughest measures in Norway in peacetime,” said Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of the country, in announcing the movements at a press conference on Friday. âNow the time has come to get back to normal everyday life. ”
In Norway, new daily cases have fallen by 50% in the past two weeks. Sixty-seven percent of the population are fully vaccinated and 10 percent have received a first dose, according to the Our World in Data project at the University of Oxford.
The changes also allow the full capacity of sports and cultural venues and restaurants, as well as the reopening of nightclubs. And the government also announced on Friday that it would withdraw its comprehensive advisory against non-essential overseas travel at the end of the month.
“We will now go back to the assessment of countries on an individual basis to determine the need for travel advice”, Ine Eriksen Soreide, Minister of Foreign Affairs, said in a statement on Friday. “These assessments will integrate questions relating to the pandemic, the health situation and the security situation in the country in question.”
Entry restrictions will remain in place for some countries, which the government says will be clarified before next Friday.
Norway is the latest country in Europe to lift pandemic-era restrictions. In Sweden, the government confirmed this week that it would proceed to the last step of its plan to reopen for fully vaccinated people, who represent 63% of its population.
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