Norway on Monday announced new Covid curbs less than a week after tightening restrictions amid the spread of the Omicron variant and soaring case numbers and hospital admissions. The move came after Norway’s health authority warned the country could record between 90,000 and 300,000 daily coronavirus cases and up toContinue Reading
Norway will ban the serving of alcohol in bars and restaurants, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said, as part of new COVID-19 restrictions intended to stem the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant. There’s “no doubt the new variant changes the rules,” Gahr Støre told a news conference Monday, announcing theContinue Reading
The government met to hammer out measures to deal with rising case numbers, the vaccine situation and the unknowns surrounding the latest coronavirus variant. Members of Prime Minister Sanna Marin‘s (SDP) government gathered at the House of Estates in Helsinki on Tuesday afternoon to discuss strategies to improve the country’sContinue Reading