OSLO (Reuters) -Norway will additional tighten restrictions this week so as to restrict the unfold of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere advised information company NTB on Monday.
“The state of affairs is critical. The unfold of an infection is just too excessive and we’ve got to take motion to restrict this growth,” he stated.
The prime minister’s workplace was not instantly accessible for remark.
Norway is setting document highs each when it comes to new COVID-19 infections and hospitalisations, partly due to the unfold of the Omicron variant of the virus.
In a danger evaluation launched on Monday, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI) advisable the federal government moved shortly.
“A scarcity of motion now may lead to giant destructive penalties for society, not only for well being providers and municipalities,” the FHI stated.
Unless efficient measures are established, the nation of 5.4 million folks dangers having between 90,000 and 300,000 new COVID-19 instances every day from early January onwards, the FHI added.
(Reporting by Terje Solsvik, enhancing by Gwladys Fouche and Ed Osmond)
