Norway ends most curbs despite rising COVID-19 infections

OSLO: Norway will scrap most of its remaining COVID-19 lockdown measures with immediate effect as a spike in coronavirus infections is unlikely to jeopardise health services, the prime minister said on Tuesday.

"Even if many more people are becoming infected, there are fewer who are hospitalised. We're well protected by vaccines. This means that we can relax many measures even as infections are rising rapidly," Stoere said. Norway in December went into partial lockdown to combat the fast-spreading Omicron coronavirus variant.

The easing is expected to lead to an even faster spread of the virus, and the government will continue to monitor the situation.

The focus in Europe is what’s happening in hospitals not cases. This is right way of looking at the current situation. Covid in Europe is no worse than flu in terms of fatalities. Time to end project fear

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