⁍ Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg said on Thursday the Nordic country would put on hold a planned ease of existing coronavirus restrictions.

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⁍ ‘We need to slow down now to avoid a full stop down the road,’ Solberg told reporters.

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⁍ The country of 5.4 million inhabitants has seen an uptick in the number of COVID-19 infections in recent days.

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– “We need to slow down now to avoid a full stop down the road.” That’s the message from Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg, who on Thursday announced that the country would reimpose quarantines on people who’ve come down with coronavirus, a respiratory illness related to the common cold that killed two Norwegians earlier this year, Reuters reports. Solberg had planned to ease restrictions on people who’d come down with the illness, which has now infected 9,409 people in the country, up 12 from the day before.