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 on Wednesday announced that later this week, those who have been fully vaccinated or had coronavirus in the country can skip entry quarantine and that it would exempt vaccinated travellers using the EU's vaccine passport from entry quarantine in the near future. https://www.thelocal.no/20210609/travel-norway-to-scrap-covid-entry-quarantine-for-vaccinated-arrivals Wed, 09 Jun 2021 19:31:09 +0200 travel-norway-to-scrap-covid-entry-quarantine-for-vaccinated-arrivals The European Commission authorised the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in 12- to 15-year-olds on Friday, following the European Medicines Agency's approval of administering the jabs to adolescents earlier in the day. https://www.thelocal.no/20210529/eu-approves-pfizer-in-children-over-12 Sat, 29 May 2021 21:05:57 +0200 eu-approves-pfizer-in-children-over-12 Pfizer/BioNTech said on Friday it has asked European regulators to authorise its Covid-19 vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds, a move seen as a crucial step toward achieving herd immunity. https://www.thelocal.no/20210430/could-12-to-15-year-olds-in-eu-soon-be-given-the-pfizer-covid-vaccine Fri, 30 Apr 2021 17:38:58 +0200 could-12-to-15-year-olds-in-eu-soon-be-given-the-pfizer-covid-vaccine The EU will have enough Covid-19 vaccine doses to cover 70 percent of its adult population by mid-July due to higher production within the bloc, a senior official said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.no/20210420/eu-will-have-vaccine-doses-for-70-percent-of-adults-by-mid-july Tue, 20 Apr 2021 13:48:29 +0200 eu-will-have-vaccine-doses-for-70-percent-of-adults-by-mid-july Europe's stuttering vaccine rollout faced multiple hurdles on Friday as EU regulators said they were reviewing side effects of the Johnson & Johnson shot and France further limited its use of the AstraZeneca jab. https://www.thelocal.no/20210410/europes-vaccine-woes-deepen-as-regulator-probes-another-jab-over-blood-clot-concerns Sat, 10 Apr 2021 11:32:26 +0200 europes-vaccine-woes-deepen-as-regulator-probes-another-jab-over-blood-clot-concerns The World Health Organization on Thursday slammed Europe's vaccine rollout as "unacceptably slow" and said it was prolonging the pandemic as the region sees a "worrying" surge in coronavirus infections. https://www.thelocal.no/20210401/europes-slow-vaccine-rollout-is-prolonging-the-pandemic-as-infections-surge Thu, 01 Apr 2021 17:58:27 +0200 europes-slow-vaccine-rollout-is-prolonging-the-pandemic-as-infections-surge The European Medicines Agency (EMA) concluded on Thursday that the AstraZeneca vaccine was a "safe and effective" tool in the battle against Covid-19 but its investigation could not rule out whether the jab had caused rare cases of blood clotting. https://www.thelocal.no/20210318/breaking-astrazeneca-jab-is-safe-and-effective-vaccine-against-covid-19-european-medicines-agency-concludes Thu, 18 Mar 2021 18:16:51 +0100 breaking-astrazeneca-jab-is-safe-and-effective-vaccine-against-covid-19-european-medicines-agency-concludes The EU's medicines regulator said Tuesday it was "firmly convinced" the benefits of AstraZeneca's vaccine outweigh potential risks, insisting there was no evidence linking it to blood clots after several nations suspended the shot over health fears. It came as Brussels sealed a deal for 10 million more Pfizer doses. https://www.thelocal.no/20210316/astrazeneca-benefits-outweigh-risks-ema-says-as-eu-orders-10-million-more-pfizer-doses Tue, 16 Mar 2021 23:11:24 +0100 astrazeneca-benefits-outweigh-risks-ema-says-as-eu-orders-10-million-more-pfizer-doses The European Union will receive an extra four million BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine doses over the next two weeks to be deployed to Covid-19 "hotspots", European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.no/20210310/europes-covid-19-hotspots-to-be-sent-million-four-million-more-vaccine-doses Wed, 10 Mar 2021 14:54:37 +0100 europes-covid-19-hotspots-to-be-sent-million-four-million-more-vaccine-doses