{"id":6504,"date":"2021-01-29T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T10:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=6504"},"modified":"2021-04-01T11:39:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T11:39:39","slug":"norway-is-closing-its-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=6504","title":{"rendered":"Norway Is Closing Its Borders!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kiev. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; January 29, 2021 \u2013 International News<\/p>\n<p>Norway has banned foreigners from entering to stop the spread of a more infectious <a href=\"https:\/\/ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=2888\">type <\/a>of <a href=\"https:\/\/ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=1656\">coronavirus<\/a>. The country has introduced the strictest border control since March.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the entry will be denied to foreign nationals who do not live in Norway or do not have a close family in the country. This was stated by Prime Minister Erna Solberg to journalists in Oslo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She said that there will be exceptions for sailors and crews, but <a href=\"https:\/\/ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=5595\">workers<\/a> from countries outside the European <a href=\"https:\/\/ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=3345\">Economic<\/a> Area will be barred from entering.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Norway has the strictest rules in Europe for the arrival of foreigners, and now it sees the need to restrict entry from the European Economic Area, where a more infectious variant of the virus is spread, the government said.<\/p>\n<p>Read also: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=3267\">Map with Details: Where to Rest Abroad this Year<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiev. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; January 29, 2021 \u2013 International News Norway has banned foreigners from entering to stop the spread of a more infectious type of coronavirus. The country has introduced the strictest border control since March. &nbsp; Therefore, the entry will be denied to foreign nationals who do not live in Norway or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3186,265,457,3185],"class_list":["post-6504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ukraine-news","tag-closing-borders","tag-covid-19","tag-government","tag-norway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}