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The police have reported several party participants in Bærum and Oslo for violating infection control rules on Saturday night. The police also had to intervene in Agder.
Several mountain passes in Southern Norway are closed on Saturday morning due to storms and bad weather.
A total of 227 new infection cases have been registered in Oslo in the last 24 hours. That is 42 more than the average of the previous seven days, which was 185 infected…
In the last 24 hours, nine new cases of infection have been registered in Bergen. Eight of them are connected to the outbreak at Rothaugen school.
A 38-year-old man who was hit by a landslide on Kistrand in Fauske in February died from the injuries he received.
Professor Bjørg Marit Andersen believes that a full lockdown of Norway is necessary to stop infection development. She received support from several other professors.
A total of 13 employees and five patients have tested positive for COVID-19 at the orthopedic department at Ullevål hospital. Furthermore, 20 employees are quarantined.
Two employees in the oil service company Saipem Ltd will receive NOK 483,465 each in compensation after working 12-hour shifts for more than eight weeks in a row.
A reindeer herder in his 20s is missing in Tanadalen in Finnmark. No one has heard from the man since Thursday afternoon. It is very cold in the area.
Minister of Health and Care Services Bent Høie (H) confirmed that the Russian COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V might be relevant for Norway.
The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs now advises against travel that is not strictly necessary to the hospital districts of Central Ostrobothnia and North Karelia…
The reindeer herder, who has been missing in Tanadalen in Finnmark since Thursday, has been found on Friday. He was safe but hungry and tired, the police say.
The Norwegian government is introducing regional measures in Færder, Holmestrand, Horten, Larvik, Sandefjord, and Tønsberg after the mutant virus has spread in the area.
Flower shops in Oslo can reopen. The decision is aimed at reducing the flow of customers to other stores that offer cut flowers.
Five Polish men, three of whom turned out to be infected, have been fined NOK 10,000 for failing to take a coronavirus test when they arrived in Norway on January 4.
The Norwegian government is planning to announce new national corona measures, but the political leadership in Bergen thinks the current rules in the Municipality are…
Four people have been taken to the hospital after an ambulance collided with a truck on E18 in Arendal. Two people are seriously injured.