Norway is lifting almost all remaining COVID restrictions even though Omicron is still spreading in the Nordic nation.
Highlights
- Norway lifts almost all remaining remaining COVID restrictions even though Omicron is still spreading in the Nordic nation.
- Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere justified the move by saying that Norwegians are well protected by vaccines against the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The proportion of citizens who end in up in hospital has remained low despite the spread of the omicron variant.
- In addition, self-isolation requirements are lifted and replaced with a recommendation that infected adults stay at home for four days.
- The one-meter (3-foot) distancing rule is abolished.
- In December, Norway went into partial lockdown to limit the spread.