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These are the seven municipalities in Norway that will be the first to receive the corona vaccines

Oslo, Ringsaker, Hamar, Stange, Sarpsborg, Fredrikstad, and Hvaler will receive vaccine doses from the very first delivery to Norway.

These are the seven municipalities in Norway that will be the first to receive the corona vaccines
Photo: Cornelius Poppe / NTB

The information was announced by the National Institute of Public Health (FHI) at a press conference on Tuesday morning.

The first vaccine delivery of just under 10,000 doses to Norway will arrive on December 26.

The first vaccines will be given in Sarpsborg on December 28, according to SA.

“We are very happy that we get vaccines as one of the first municipalities. We are well prepared and have good plans for how the vaccination will be carried out,” health director Øivind Werner Johansen told the newspaper.

The vaccines in the municipality will be given over three days: December 28, 29, and 30.

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