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Covid measures cut Norway s sexually-transmitted infections
Thursday June 03 2021
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Norway, a country of 5.4 million, is among the countries least hard-hit by Covid-19, with 125,881 cases and 785 deaths.
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Sexually-transmitted infections (STIs) declined sharply in Norway last year thanks to social distancing during the pandemic, official statistics published on Thursday showed.
The country saw a 39-percent reduction in gonorrhoea cases, an 11-percent drop in chlamydia cases, and a 20-percent decline in HIV cases in 2020. The drop in the number of STIs in 2020 is most probably linked to anti-Covid measures, such as travel restrictions, social distancing and the closure of bars and restaurants, Oyvind Nilsen of Norway s Institute of Public Health (FHI) said in a statement.
Foreign-born residents in Sweden and Norway are more hesitant to get a COVID-19 vaccine, official statistics show.
More than 80% of citizens born in Sweden and aged over 80 have so far been vaccinated against the coronavirus.
But the corresponding statistics for Swedish citizens born in northern Africa is just 59%, and merely 44% for those from sub-Saharan Africa.
Meanwhile, in neighbouring Norway, half of the those currently hospitalised with the virus were born outside the country.
Just two-thirds of Norwegian residents born in Pakistan aged over 75 have received their first dose of a vaccine, and only one-third of those from Somalia.
But according to Norway’s Institute of Public Health (NIPH), 95% of pensioners born in Norway have been given the jab.
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Norway should exclude the COVID-19 vaccines made by AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson from its immunization program, due to a small risk of rare but serious side effects, a panel of health experts commissioned by the government said on Monday. However, the panel said those shots should be available for people on a voluntary basis. The government said it will use the recommendations, alongside advice from Norway s Institute of Public Health, which has also called for both shots to be dropped from the program, as a basis for its final decision on whether to use the vaccines. Separately, the European Union said it has not made any new orders for AstraZeneca vaccines beyond June when the contract ends. We have not renewed the order for after June. We ll see what happens, Thierry Bretón, the European Internal Market Commissioner, told French radio Fran