Norway postpones reopening over Delta variant

Norway postpones reopening over Delta variant

Norway on Monday said it was postponing the lifting of anti-coronavirus measures, fearing a potential fourth wave of cases brought on by the Delta variant of the Covid-19 virus. The near total lifting of all virus restrictions would be pushed back ‘until the end of July, beginning of August’ at the earliest, the government said. ‘The development remains positive,’ Prime Minister Erna Solberg told a press conference, adding the government would wait and see how the Delta variant affects the situation. Reopening too quickly would raise the risk ‘that the Delta variant could create a fourth wave in the part of the population that is not vaccinated, in groups who have received only one dose and in vulnerable groups with weakened immune systems,’ she said.