Tag: Corona virus

Norway also bans flights from Britain

UPDATED: Norway remained the last Scandinavian country to allow flights from Great Britain to land, but that ended Monday morning. Health Minister Bent Høie...

Digital Nobel ‘is a call to action’

The Norwegian Nobel Committee couldn't host its traditionally elegant Nobel Peace Prize ceremony on Thursday, and there was none of the pomp and circumstance to...

Rules tighten for entering Norway

Norway is tightening border control but also loosening the rules for the country's controversial "quarantine hotels." Travelers from abroad won't have to spend their...

‘Light at the end of the Corona tunnel’

That's how Norwegian Health Minister Bent Høie expressed reason for optimism on Friday, when announcing that the state will likely be able to offer...

EFTA questions quarantine hotels

Debate has been swirling around Norway's new "quarantine hotels" that opened last month, right after the country's Corona virus containment measures were tightened. Now...

Norway braces for a very different ‘jul’

Christmas trees are in place, there are more holiday lights than ever and Prime Minister Erna Solberg's government is easing some restrictions on social...

Ski federation drops World Cup races

No Norwegian skiers will be competing in the next rounds of World Cup races in both Davos and Dresden. Corona infection fears are considered...

Corona spurs skiers to suspend races

A decision by champion cross-country skier Johannes Høsflot Klæbo to drop upcoming World Cup races in Davos and Dresden sends "a dramatic signal," claims...

Central bank bosses in Covid quarantine

Nicolai Tangen, the billionaire philanthropist who recently took over as head of Norway's Oil Fund at the central bank, has tested positive for the...

King and queen in Corona quarantine

King Harald and Queen Sonja were both in Corona quarantine Thursday evening, after an employee at the Royal Palace in Oslo was confirmed as...
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