Norway Updates Travel Guidance, Opens To Most European Countries

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The Norwegian government has revised its coronavirus travel restrictions, allowing people from many European countries including the U.K. to visit Norway with no quarantine requirement from July 15

. However, the specific countries included in the border reopening were to be released later due to the risk of changes in the infection rate.

At the time, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health issued clear guidance on which European countries may be excluded from the quarantine-free reopening. Any country with more than 20 new cases per 100,000 people in the last two weeks, more than 0.5 per 100,000 admissions to intensive care, or more than 5% of coronavirus tests resulting in a positive result would be excluded.

While the restrictions will be lifted from July 15, assessments will continue every 14 days. This means anyone booking a trip faces an element of uncertainty should the infection rate increase in their country.Tourists from non-EU/EEA/Schengen countries remain unable to visit Norway, although there is an exemption for business travel and students.

People from any country who hold a work or residence permit in Norway can enter the country although they will be subject to a 10-day period of home quarantine. The same rules apply for students set to begin a course in the 2020/21 academic year and workers with an employment contract. There are also some exemptions for EU/EEA citizens wishing to visitFHI confirmed that they may consider adding other countries to the border opening towards the end of July, but gave no other information.

Despite this, the government was keen to emphasize that not everything was back to normal. “The fact that we are lifting restrictions may give the impression that the pandemic is dying down. It is not. It is the way we are dealing with it that is changing,” said Minister of Health and Care Services Bent HøieOne area of focus has been the border, which remains essentially closed to most people aside from a few Nordic countries, with the notable exception of Sweden.

 

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