Norway will scrap most of its remaining COVID-19 lockdown measures with immediate effect as a spike in coronavirus infections is unlikely to jeopardize health services, the prime minister said on Tuesday.
Restaurants will again be allowed to serve alcohol beyond 11 o'clock at night, working from home will no longer be mandatory and the limit of 10 visitors in private homes will be removed, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere told a news conference.
"Even if many more people are becoming infected, there are fewer who are hospitalized. We're well protected by vaccines. This means that we can relax many measures even as infections are rising rapidly," Stoere said. While lifting most restrictions, the country will keep basic social distancing measures, asking people to stay at least one meter apart and to wear a face mask in crowded settings, thus still hampering businesses such as nightclubs and some entertainment venues.
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