Norway’s health institute will map Norwegians’ attitudes to vaccines
A total of 2,000 people will be invited to participate in the National Public Health Survey on Wednesday. In the survey, the National Institute of…
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More than 5,000 Norwegians voted for the new name of the corona infection tracking app. Here it is
The name “Smittestopp” was most popular in the National Institute of Public Health’s (FHI) poll on what the name of their new infection tracking app…
35 variants of the coronavirus discovered in Norway
So far, during the pandemic, 35 different variants of the coronavirus have been discovered in Norway, and 26 of them were discovered this August and…
Norway’s health institute wants people to vote on the name of the new infection app
The National Institute of Public Health (FHI) has decided to hold a vote on what the new infection app should be called. Until 11.59 PM…
Norway’s health institute publishes new corona assessment: “High risk of local outbreaks”
In order to avoid the further national spread of the coronavirus infection, the National Institute of Public Health (FHI) recommends that the current measures are…
Norway’s national health institute calculates corona mortality at 0.31%
In the National Institute of Public Health’s (FHI) latest risk assessment, the risk of dying from COVID-19 infection is estimated at 0.31%. The estimate is…
It’s official: Norway declares entire Europe outside Nordic region “red”
The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has decided to put Cyprus, Latvia, and Liechtenstein on its list of “red” countries. Now, the whole of Europe…
Norway’s health institute: Don’t go trick or treating this Halloween, think about infection control
The National Institute of Public Health (FHI) encourages people to drop the trick or treating in the neighborhood on Halloween and instead find other alternatives….
Health institute: Six Norwegian counties registered spike in corona cases last week
The spread of the coronavirus is still relatively low in Norway, but there was an increase in the number of corona cases last week in…
Norway’s health institute has less than two months to prepare for corona vaccines
The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI) must prepare many things before the authorities can use a possible coronavirus vaccine. Everything should be ready in…
Health institute: Norway should put entire Europe outside Nordic region on “red” list
The whole of Europe outside the Nordic region could turn “red” if the government decides to follow the recommendation of Norway’s National Insititute of Public…
Norway extends advice against travel until January 15. Here are the details
The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs decided to uphold its global travel guidelines against non-essential travel to all countries in the Schengen area/EEA, apart from…
Norwegian health institute adjusts corona death toll. The total number is 270
In an update, the National Institute of Public Health (FHI) reported three new corona-related deaths. The three deaths are not new instances that occurred in…
Norwegian health institute sounds the alarm: “Corona pandemic probably increasing nationally”
For the first time in several months, the so-called R-number is over 1 in Norway. That means that each person infected with the coronavirus infects…
Norwegian health institute: Lithuania and Iceland should be put on list of “red” countries
Norway’s National Institute of Public Health (NIPH/FHI) believes that Lithuania and Iceland, as well as the regions of Västerbotten in Sweden and Central Finland and…
More than 90% of people who died with COVID-19 in Norway also had a chronic disease
According to figures from the Cause of Death Register, almost all patients in Norway who died after being infected with the coronavirus also had a…
FHI has recommended six new “red” countries and several areas in Sweden and Denmark
The Institute of Public Health recommended several new “red” countries, including Iceland and the Netherlands, in addition to a number of areas in Sweden and…
Oslo is now “red” according to FHI’s infection requirements for other countries
In the last two weeks Oslo has registered 22.49 infected per 100,000 people. Thus, the infection rate being higher than the requirement FHI sets for…
Face masks might be recommended in Norway, already introduced in Iceland and Denmark
The use of face masks in Norway could become recommended in the event of a resurgence in the amount of infected. Iceland has introduced it…
Infection rates in Spain are over FHi’s limit
The infection rates in Spain are now at a level with what the Norwegian authorities consider a “red country”, but is still green. NIPH will…