Erna Solberg advised youngsters she was assured a vaccine in opposition to covid will probably be discovered (File)
Oslo:
Prime Minister Erna Solberg advised Norwegian youngsters on Thursday she was assured a vaccine in opposition to the novel coronavirus will probably be discovered and that the illness might turn into one of many many illnesses children are vaccinated in opposition to.
She spoke at her third information convention held specifically for kids, with adults not allowed to ask questions, because the disaster started. On the first such briefing on March 16, Solberg advised youngsters it was “OK” to really feel scared in regards to the pandemic.
“I feel we’ll be capable of discover a vaccine and that signifies that corona will live on however as a result of we will probably be vaccinated we is not going to turn into unwell or not so unwell from it,” Solberg stated, including that, when she was little, she was sick with measles.
“That could be a illness that the majority youngsters in Norway are vaccinated in opposition to now, however that was a really harmful illness after I was little … Now it (the coronavirus) will probably be like with the measles or rubella.”
Different questions requested by youngsters and despatched prematurely through youngsters’s TV programme Supernytt included: “Do we now have sufficient cleaning soap?”, “Does Norway have any cash left after the pandemic?” and “May we now have Antibac that smells good?”
“It will be good, would not it, if it smelled like flowers,” stated Solberg.
“However a very powerful is that it really works … And generally you discover Antibac that scent higher than others.”
Norway would have sufficient provides of cleaning soap to deal with the pandemic, Kjell Ingolf Ropstad, the Minister for Kids and Household, advised the identical information convention.
Colleges in Norway reopened from April 27 and resumed as regular after the summer time holidays on Aug. 17. Pupils don’t have to put on face masks however they have to attempt to hold socially distant throughout breaks.
Norway has reported a complete of 10,871 COVID-19 infections and 264 deaths thus far.
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