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The Swedish Foreign Ministry writes this in its updated travel advice on the government website on Sunday.
The advice applies until further notice.
No background is given for the new council, but it follows the outbreak of the “British” variant of the coronavirus in several municipalities in eastern Norway. The UK is also on the list of countries to which the Swedish Foreign Ministry advises against traveling.
It is already known that Sweden will introduce an entry ban from Norway on Monday night.
The ban will take effect at midnight and will last until February 14.
It was Interior Minister Mikael Damberg who announced the upcoming entry ban on Saturday.
On Sunday, Damberg held a press conference where he reported on the new measures on the Swedish side.
Swedish health authorities fear that many Norwegians will go to Sweden due to heavy closures in eastern Norway, and that this could lead to outbreaks of the mutated virus in Sweden.
– The risk of congestion increases in Swedish municipalities close to the border and the risk that the mutated virus will spread further in our country, Damberg said.
– When Norwegian shops and liquor stores close, there is a risk that Norwegians will come to Sweden and contribute to the spread of infections and congestion here.
He encourages everyone who has visited Norway to undergo testing and quarantine until the test results are available.
Exceptions are made for people who work in one country and live in the other.
Prime Minister Erna Solberg told NRK on Saturday that Norwegian authorities have been informed that the Swedish side will introduce an entry ban with a trial regime at midnight on Monday. It will last until February 14.
– It is like this in many European countries now, people are beginning to close their borders. Norway has been among the strictest from the beginning. We can’t complain now that the Swedes say they don’t want the mutated virus, because we don’t want that in Norway either, Solberg said.
On Saturday, the Public Health Authority also asked all people traveling to Sweden from Norway, or who have recently been to Norway, to have a coronal test and home isolation for at least seven days.
The Swedish authorities are now dissuading their citizens from taking unnecessary trips to Norway.
Photo: Berit Roald / NTB
