As infections increase, a number of measures are being introduced. Prime Minister Erna Solberg asks not to receive guests at home for the next two weeks.
We have to suspend our social life for at least two weeks, she continues.
In addition to avoiding having guests at home the government is also taking the following measures:
- Prohibition alcohol consumption, but restaurants can remain open.
- Up to five people at private meetings outside your home, for example on your birthday or in a rental apartment.
- It is recommended to postpone all organized recreational activities, sports activities, cultural and philosophical events indoors after January 18. This also applies to all indoor activities that connect children and young people between classes
- Avoid all unnecessary travel at home and abroad, but you can go to the holiday home with the people you live with.
- Anyone who can have a home office should have one.
- Maximum number of people in stores and shopping centers so that you can keep your distance.
- Level red in all secondary schools and post-secondary schools
- Digital learning in higher education up to 18 years old January
- All shopping centers and stores should introduce numerical limits so that distance can be maintained and access can be controlled.
- Maximum ten people at indoor sports events, cultural events, seminars, philosophical meetings, ceremonies, etc., still 200 people, with everyone in the audience sitting in fixed seats. Up to 50 people can attend funerals, even if the seats are not secured.
- In any case, most events will not be consistent with national ones recommendations and therefore should be postponed or canceled.
Read also an important article about coming to Norway and the obligations that come with it.
. To avoid a new wave of infections
The measures will remain in force for two weeks, until January 18. Half January the government will make a new assessment.
– We hope this one package enough to avoid a new wave of infections, says Solberg.
Vaccination has already started, but it takes a long time to vaccinate enough people for the pandemic to be over.
- We have to stick a little longer. This only works when everyone is taking part in the effortsays Solberg.
The Prime Minister says that there must be stabilization, and preferably a reduction in the number of cases, for the measures to be relaxed.
