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Norway to ease COVID-19 curbs, vaccine rollout may be delayed
By Victoria Klesty and Gwladys Fouche
OSLO (Reuters) -Norway will start to unwind some restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic and allow more people to gather from Friday, Prime Minister Erna Solberg said on Tuesday.
However, the country’s vaccine rollout risks being delayed by up to almost three months if it does not go ahead and use AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson’s shots, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health said.
Norway will say on Thursday whether it will resume using the AstraZeneca vaccine, on hold since a small number of younger inoculated people developed a combination of blood clots, bleeding and a low platelet count, some of whom later died.
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