Among other things, it is clear that from Saturday 19 June, the following people will be allowed to travel into the country without a requirement for quarantine:

• Adult children and stepchildren as well as parents and stepparents of adult children / stepchildren.

• Grandparents (including step-grandparents), grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

• Girlfriends and boyfriends over the age of 18 and their minor children.

However, the relationship must have lasted for at least nine months and the couple must have met physically before.

However, an application must be made to the Directorate of Immigration.



Norway also announces that it will switch to following the EU's color chart for entry into the country from 5 July.

However, you must register and also be tested at the border.

In order to avoid entry quarantine, it is then required that you come from a green country that has less than 50 infected per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days and that the proportion of positive tests is below four percent.

Alternatively, less than 75 infected per 100,000 inhabitants are required and the proportion of positive people is less than one percent.

This is what it looked like last week when vaccinated Norwegians were allowed to enter Sweden for the first time in a while:

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Hear Ole Sebastian Bach and Amalia Blindheim from Trondheim who were among the first to cross the border at Storlien.

Photo: Eva Danielson, SVT