https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Norway in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Norway, which has suspended the use of AstraZeneca's Covid vaccine until further notice, will send 216,000 doses to Sweden and Iceland at their request, the Norwegian health ministry said Thursday. https://www.thelocal.no/20210422/norway-to-send-200000-astrazeneca-doses-to-sweden-and-iceland Thu, 22 Apr 2021 16:29:38 +0200 norway-to-send-200000-astrazeneca-doses-to-sweden-and-iceland A man lay dead in his flat for nine years before being discovered in December, police in Oslo have said. https://www.thelocal.no/20210409/body-found-in-oslo-flat-nine-years-after-death Fri, 09 Apr 2021 13:20:41 +0200 body-found-in-oslo-flat-nine-years-after-death Prime Minister Erna Solberg says that certificates will be issued to people who have either received a Covid-19 vaccine or have immunity as part of the Norway's four step plan to lift coronavirus restrictions. https://www.thelocal.no/20210407/norway-to-use-coronavirus-certificates-in-reopening-plan Wed, 07 Apr 2021 14:26:06 +0200 norway-to-use-coronavirus-certificates-in-reopening-plan The proportion of children who live in low-income households has increased steadily since 2011, rising to just over one-in-ten, according to a report from Statistics Norway. https://www.thelocal.no/20210329/over-one-in-ten-children-live-in-low-income-households-in-norway Mon, 29 Mar 2021 18:10:53 +0200 over-one-in-ten-children-live-in-low-income-households-in-norway Oslo's Gardermoen airport, the largest in Norway, has seen passengers move their trips forward to avoid incoming tightening of Covid-19 entry quarantine rules. https://www.thelocal.no/20210329/oslo-airport-reports-uptick-in-arrivals-ahead-of-new-covid-19-quarantine-rules Mon, 29 Mar 2021 17:29:31 +0200 oslo-airport-reports-uptick-in-arrivals-ahead-of-new-covid-19-quarantine-rules The Norwegian Fishermen’s Association fears that the large-scale development of offshore wind farms will cause damage to their livelihoods. https://www.thelocal.no/20210326/why-norwegian-fishermen-are-against-more-offshore-wind-farms Fri, 26 Mar 2021 13:46:42 +0100 why-norwegian-fishermen-are-against-more-offshore-wind-farms Norway announced on Tuesday new Covid-19 measures which will be in place over the upcoming Easter holidays. https://www.thelocal.no/20210323/norway-considering-new-covid-19-easter-restrictions Tue, 23 Mar 2021 18:08:10 +0100 norway-considering-new-covid-19-easter-restrictions A report from Norway's National Institute of Public Health (NIPH) has found that people who contract the B117 variant of Covid-19 are 2.6 times more likely to need hospital treatment than those with previous forms of the virus. https://www.thelocal.no/20210323/norwegian-experts-find-increased-risk-of-hospitalisation-with-infectious-covid-19-variant Tue, 23 Mar 2021 16:04:22 +0100 norwegian-experts-find-increased-risk-of-hospitalisation-with-infectious-covid-19-variant Geir Bukholm, director of infection prevention and control at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH), said in an interview that the authority believes that it is unlikely people will develop suspected rare side effects if two weeks have passed since taking the AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19. https://www.thelocal.no/20210322/norwegian-health-authority-says-blood-clots-unlikely-over-two-weeks-after-astrazeneca-vaccination Mon, 22 Mar 2021 14:50:32 +0100 norwegian-health-authority-says-blood-clots-unlikely-over-two-weeks-after-astrazeneca-vaccination Norwegian officials disagreed with the EMA's decision not to list cases of blood clots as possible side effects of the AstraZeneca vaccine, according to a media report in the Nordic country. https://www.thelocal.no/20210319/norway-disagreed-with-astrazeneca-conclusion-at-ema-meeting Fri, 19 Mar 2021 16:59:31 +0100 norway-disagreed-with-astrazeneca-conclusion-at-ema-meeting Health authorities in Norway are telling the public to avoid unnecessary travel over the Easter holidays following record levels of Covid-19 infections. https://www.thelocal.no/20210318/norwegian-health-authorities-advise-against-unnecessary-travel-over-easter Thu, 18 Mar 2021 16:39:49 +0100 norwegian-health-authorities-advise-against-unnecessary-travel-over-easter A statistical analysis has found that immigrants in Norway experience greater loneliness and exclusion from society than the rest of the population. https://www.thelocal.no/20210318/immigrants-in-norway-more-likely-to-be-affected-by-loneliness Thu, 18 Mar 2021 13:55:55 +0100 immigrants-in-norway-more-likely-to-be-affected-by-loneliness Autumn has arrived in all its glory, and Oslo is ablaze with vibrant colours. But where should photographers go to snap the most dramatic foliage? Our travel editor Marie Peyre has some advice. https://www.thelocal.no/20171005/best-places-to-photograph-autumn-colours-in-oslo Thu, 05 Oct 2017 18:13:34 +0200 best-places-to-photograph-autumn-colours-in-oslo The Norwegian Institute of Public Health is planning to roll out saliva tests for coronavirus which will save the public from the unpleasant experience of deep nose and throat swabs. https://www.thelocal.no/20200522/norway-plans-to-roll-out-spit-tests-for-coronavirus Fri, 22 May 2020 14:04:13 +0200 norway-plans-to-roll-out-spit-tests-for-coronavirus The fall in the number of people hospitalised with coronavirus in Norway appears to be flattening out with the same number in hospital on Tuesday as there were six days earlier. https://www.thelocal.no/20200408/coronavirus-latest-norway Wed, 08 Apr 2020 18:31:41 +0200 coronavirus-latest-norway Norway reopened schools for the 250,000 pupils in the first five years on Monday, a week after reopening kindergartens. Here's how it went. https://www.thelocal.no/20200427/in-pics-norways-school-and-kindergarten-reopening Mon, 27 Apr 2020 16:42:12 +0200 in-pics-norways-school-and-kindergarten-reopening One of Norway's most eminent epidemiologists has questioned Norway's decision to impose a heavy lockdown, arguing that the country might have been better adopting a strategy closer to that of Sweden. https://www.thelocal.no/20200423/if-we-had-followed-sweden-we-would-have-higher-immunity-epidemiologist Thu, 23 Apr 2020 11:41:29 +0200 if-we-had-followed-sweden-we-would-have-higher-immunity-epidemiologist As Denmark and Norway start lifting restrictions after a month of lockdown, are their coronavirus strategies shifting to the less restrictive approach their neighbour Sweden has had from the start? https://www.thelocal.no/20200421/explained-are-denmark-and-norways-restrictions-still-tougher-than-swedens Tue, 21 Apr 2020 19:03:28 +0200 explained-are-denmark-and-norways-restrictions-still-tougher-than-swedens One of Norway's leading universities has been forced to change a message warning overseas students of the US's "poorly developed health services", after it was dragged into a storm of criticism on social media. https://www.thelocal.no/20200317/norway-uni-pulls-coronavirus-message-citing-poorly-developed-us-health-system Tue, 17 Mar 2020 10:24:10 +0100 norway-uni-pulls-coronavirus-message-citing-poorly-developed-us-health-system Norwegian health authorities have called for all who can to work from home, and for all events involving more than 500 people to be cancelled, as the coronavirus infection in the country enters "a new phase". https://www.thelocal.no/20200311/norway-bans-big-events-and-calls-for-office-workers-to-stay-home Wed, 11 Mar 2020 12:03:37 +0100 norway-bans-big-events-and-calls-for-office-workers-to-stay-home