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Gifts are brought by Julenissen ('Christmas Hob' or 'the Christmas Wight', who today appears identical to Santa Claus). Remnants of customs from the older agrarian society include decoration with boughs of green from spruce or fir, e.g. on the doormat, and a sheaf of wheat ( julenek ) hung outside.
Norway began administering Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine on December 27 2020. 67-year-old Svein Andersen from Oslo, Norway was the first person in Norway to receive the vaccine. [ 43 ] As of 17 April 2021 [update] , 870,524 people in Norway have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and 296,458 are fully vaccinated, primarily the ...
Norway’s 86-year-old King Harald V, who has been in frail health in the past few years, has tested positive for the coronavirus and has mild symptoms, royal officials said on Sunday. The ...
COVID-19 vaccination in Norway is an ongoing immunization campaign against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), in response to the ongoing pandemic in the country.
The number of national daily newspapers in Norway was 96 in 1950, whereas it was 83 in 1965. [1] A total of 191 newspapers was published in 1969. [2] There were 221 newspapers in the country in 1996. [3] The number of the newspaper was 233 in the country in 1999. [4]
Today, Vårt Land is not only a newspaper, but a part of a media house called Mentor Medier (former Mediehuset Vårt Land). Vårt Land is an opinion paper. [2] It has a conservative Christian stance in religious matters and a social-liberal leaning in political matters. [2] The newspaper is dependent on economic support from the Norwegian ...
Norway's central bank plans to raise its key policy interest rate next month, it said on Thursday, continuing a campaign of monetary tightening that started in September https://www.reuters.com ...
The COVID-19 pandemic in Svalbard is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was confirmed to have reached Svalbard on 6 October 2021. [1] As a territory of Norway, Svalbard follows mainland Norway's COVID-19 restrictions. [2]