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Latest Corona-related news in brief: March 17, 2021 NORWAY’S THIRD CORONA INFECTION WAVE was crashing over the country on Wednesday, as the highest numbers of confirmed virus cases ever rolled in. A total of 1,156 cases were registered during the past 24 hours, with areas like Haugalandet on the West Coast now being hit hard. “These are high and disturbing numbers,” Jarle Nilsen, the mayor of Karmøy, told state broadcaster NRK. Fully half of all cases in neighbouring Haugesund now involve children and youth. In Oslo, the number of new confirmed cases hit 495 in a just a 24-hour perio...

Oslo to ‘carefully’ open up again February 1, 2021 Elementary and junior high schools, restaurants, free-standing stores, libraries and some sports facilities can reopen in the Norwegian capital from Wednesday (February 3). Private social gatherings will still be limited, though, and neither bars nor restaurants can serve alcohol. There may finally be some brighter days ahead i Oslo, after the city government ended or at least eased some Corona-related restrictions from Wednesday. PHOTO: newsinenglish.no “There’s now some room to begin a gradual and controlled re-opening of Oslo,”...