Coronavirus

• You should stay home if you feel ill and experience respiratory symptoms. If you have residual symptoms such as runny nose, snot, hoarseness and some coughing, you can go about life as normal.
  
  
• Cough into a handkerchief or into your elbow. Avoid coughing or sneezing directly on others.
  
  
• Wash your hands with soap and water, or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
  
  
• Avoid contact with people in the risk group if you have respiratory symptoms.
  
  
• Use a face mask if you have respiratory symptoms and have to visit places with many people, or if you have to visit someone in the risk group.
  
  
• If you have respiratory symptoms you should limit or avoid contact with families who have newborn children or infants.
  
  
• Use a mask if you are in the risk group and have to visit places with many people, during periods where there is a lot of infection.
  
  
• You do not need to test for COVID-19 even if you are experiencing symptoms. If you are in the risk group you should take a test. Read more about this at FHI.no.
  
  
• You do not need to register a positive self-test.
  
  
• You do not need to take a PCR test. If you need a test as documentation for your COVID-19 certificate, you will need to pay for the test yourself.
  
  
• There are no rules in place relating to quarantine or isolation.
  
  
• Everyone who is recommended to take the COVID-19 vaccine should do so.

• You do not need to test for COVID-19 even if you experience respiratory symptoms - unless you are in the risk group. 
  
  
• If you are in the risk group and get symptoms of covid-19, you should take a self-test. If the self-test is positive, contact your doctor. The doctor will make an overall assessment based on age, time since the previous vaccine dose, as well as other risk factors to decide whether treatment with Paxlovid is appropriate. If the self-test is negative and the symptoms persist, it is recommended that you take a new self-test every day until day four. You can read more about the treatment at FHI.no.
  
  
• If you need medical help, your GP can assess whether a COVID-19 test is necessary.
  
  
• If you need a COVID-19 test as documentation for your COVID-19 certificate, you will need to pay for the test yourself.

• Respiratory symptoms are first and foremost stuffy nose, cough and sore throat. You often also have a fever or a headache.

• You should stay home if you feel ill and experience respiratory symptoms. If you have residual symptoms such as runny nose, snot, hoarseness and some coughing, you can go about life as normal.
  
  
• You do not need to test for COVID-19 even if you are experiencing symptoms. If you are in a risk group you should take a test. Read more at FHI.no.
  
  
• If you take a test that shows you are infected with COVID-19, the same advice about staying at home if you feel sick applies.
  
  
• Cough into a handkerchief or into your elbow. Avoid coughing or sneezing directly on others.
  
  
• Wash your hands with soap and water, or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
  
  
• Avoid contact with people in risk groups.
  
  
• You should limit or avoid contact with families who have newborn children or infants.
  
  
• Use a face mask if you have to visit places with many people, or if you have to visit someone in the risk group.
  
  
• If you are worried about your own or your child's health, contact a doctor.

• No, there are no longer any rules or recommendations to quarantine or isolate.
  
  
• If you feel ill and experience respiratory symptoms, you should stay home until you feel better. You can go about life as normal if you are not experiencing any symptoms. 

• If you are in the risk group and get symptoms of COVID-19, you should take a self-test. If the self-test is positive, contact your doctor. The doctor will make an overall assessment based on age, time since the previous vaccine dose, as well as other risk factors to decide whether treatment with Paxlovid is appropriate. If the self-test is negative and the symptoms persist, it is recommended that you take a new self-test every day until day four. You can read more about the treatment at FHI.no.
  
  
• The general advice for preventing infection, such as staying at home when sick and having good cough and hand hygiene, still applies to protect you and others from respiratory tract infections, including COVID-19.
  
  
• If someone with respiratory symptoms visits you, they should wear a face mask.
  
  
• If you are in the risk group, it may be appropriate for you to take a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine before the winter season.

See separate advice for risk groups from the NIPH.

• Since there may be a new infection peak during the winter and the virus is constantly changing, certain groups are recommended to take a new booster dose.
  
  
• For most people, this will be their fourth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, but for some with a weaker immune system it may be the fifth dose. For children aged 12-17 with a serious underlying illness, this will be the third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Read more about who is recommended to take a new vaccine dose.

• You may be asked to show a COVID-19 certificate if you are travelling abroad. You should read up on which rules that applies to entering different countries.

The Norwegian government has created an alphabetical list of countries and rules and an app for those who are going to travel (in Norwegian).

You can log in and view or print out your COVID-19 certificate here.