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March 17, 2021
NORWAY’S THIRD CORONA INFECTION WAVE was crashing over the country on Wednesday, as the highest numbers of confirmed virus cases ever rolled in. A total of 1,156 cases were registered during the past 24 hours, with areas like Haugalandet on the West Coast now being hit hard.
“These are high and disturbing numbers,” Jarle Nilsen, the mayor of Karmøy, told state broadcaster NRK. Fully half of all cases in neighbouring Haugesund now involve children and youth. In Oslo, the number of new confirmed cases hit 495 in a just a 24-hour period. That’s 214 more than on Wednesday last week. Numbers were also high in Drammen, Bergen and Tønsberg.
Norwegian penguins get vaccinated and can end isolation
Fears of bird flu have kept them under strict confinement in Bergen aquarium for months. But the second shot of a vaccine will see them return to their normal lives.
Gentoo penguin males sift through pebbles looking for the smoothest one to present to their chosen mate.
Staff at Norway s Bergen Aquarium this week began vaccinating a group of Gentoo penguins that has been living under quarantine for months.
Cases of a highly infectious bird flu strain, H5N8, were detected in the country in December.
The type had not been registered in Norway before, but scientists say it has a 90% mortality for birds.
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