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.
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.
Norwegian police have fined Prime Minister Erna Solberg for breaking COVID-19 social distancing rules when she organised a family gathering to celebrate her bi
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Norwegian police said on Friday they have fined Prime Minister Erna Solberg for breaking COVID-19 social-distancing rules when she organized a family gathering to celebrate her birthday.
The fine is for 20,000 Norwegian crowns ($2,352), police chief Ole Saeverud told a news conference.
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