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Norway rolls out new rules on Covid-19 entry quarantine

From Friday afternoon, rules for travellers who have been fully vaccinated in Norway, or have had Covid in the last six months in the country, will be eased.

Published: 11 June 2021 12:41 CEST
Norway rolls out new rules on Covid-19 entry quarantine
Oslo Gardermoen Airport. Photo by Robert Bye on Unsplash

From 3 pm, Friday, June 11th, arrivals who have been fully vaccinated in Norway and can prove it through the country’s Covid-19 health certificate will be able to skip the entry quarantine period, provided they test negative for coronavirus within two days of their return. 

The same will apply to those who have tested positive for Covid-19 in Norway within the last six months. 

The Covid-19 certificate is available via helsenorge.no.  

In addition to this, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health announced on Friday that travellers exempt from quarantine upon entry under the new rule would also no longer need to present a negative Covid-19 test at the border. 

The Ministry of Health also confirmed the news. 

“Fully vaccinated and people who have had Covid-19 in the last six months also do not need to present a certificate showing a negative test taken 24 hours before departing for Norway, but must still be tested at the border,” The Ministry wrote on its website. 

Those no longer required to present a negative test or enter quarantine will still need to get tested at the border and register their arrival 72 hours prior. 

 In Norway, fully vaccinated is defined as:

  • People who have received both vaccine jabs, and at least one week has passed since the second shot 
  • Those who have tested positive for Covid and then received a vaccine dose at least three weeks afterwards 
  • Have received the first vaccine dose and then tested positive three weeks after vaccination.

Traveller’s with only vaccine dose will be able to quarantine at home and test themselves out of the isolation period after three days, provided they received the vaccine at least three weeks prior. 

READ ALSO: Latest: Who has to enter quarantine hotels when travelling to Norway? 

Those vaccinated abroad will still need to enter a quarantine hotel or quarantine at home, depending on where you arrive from.  

However, the government plans on letting fully vaccinated travellers using the EU’s vaccine passport skip quarantine when the scheme launches in July. 

The government are still advising against all non-essential international travel. Current entry restrictions also remain in place. 

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Public Health Agency recommends two Covid doses next year for elderly

Sweden's Public Health Agency is recommending that those above the age of 80 should receive two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine a year, once in the spring and once in the autumn, as it shifts towards a longer-term strategy for the virus.

Published: 23 December 2022 10:53 CET
Public Health Agency recommends two Covid doses next year for elderly

In a new recommendation, the agency said that those living in elderly care centres, and those above the age of 80 should from March 1st receive two vaccinations a year, with a six month gap between doses. 

“Elderly people develop a somewhat worse immune defence after vaccination and immunity wanes faster than among young and healthy people,” the agency said. “That means that elderly people have a greater need of booster doses than younger ones. The Swedish Public Health Agency considers, based on the current knowledge, that it will be important even going into the future to have booster doses for the elderly and people in risk groups.” 

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People between the ages of 65 and 79 years old and young people with risk factors, such as obesity, diabetes, poor kidney function or high blood pressure, are recommended to take one additional dose per year.

The new vaccination recommendation, which will start to apply from March 1st next year, is only for 2023, Johanna Rubin, the investigator in the agency’s vaccination programme unit, explained. 

She said too much was still unclear about how long protection from vaccination lasted to institute a permanent programme.

“This recommendation applies to 2023. There is not really an abundance of data on how long protection lasts after a booster dose, of course, but this is what we can say for now,” she told the TT newswire. 

It was likely, however, that elderly people would end up being given an annual dose to protect them from any new variants, as has long been the case with influenza.

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