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Norway has joined its Nordic neighbors in discarding most remaining coronavirus restrictions Saturday.

Norwegian health officials lifted the majority of restrictions on Feb. 1, and they decided Saturday that the immunity levels and low hospitalization rates were sufficient to also ditch the remaining rules requiring social distancing, masking, and self-isolation after exposure.

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"This is the day we have been waiting for," Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said during a news conference in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. "We are removing almost all coronavirus measures."

Sweden lifted most of its coronavirus rules Wednesday, ditching everything from vaccine passports to social distancing requirements and will designate COVID-19 as "not a danger to society or a threat to public health" beginning April 1. Denmark was the first European Union country to lift all restrictions on Feb. 1, deciding in January that COVID-19 "should no longer be categorized as a socially critical disease."

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The United Kingdom also ended some coronavirus rules in January, including a testing requirement for vaccinated people entering the country and ending the quarantine requirements for unvaccinated travelers.

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