CDC Lists Norway as ‘Very High’ Travel Risk After Country Ends All COVID-19 Restrictions

People out on the streets to celebrate the end of the COVID-19 restrictions, in Oslo, on Sept. 25, 2021. Naina Helen Jama/NTB via AP

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this week listed Norway as a country with a “very high” risk of travel after the Scandinavian nation lifted its COVID-19 pandemic restrictions last week.

The CDC now designates the country “Level 4: COVID-19 Very High,” according to its website. “Avoid travel to Norway,” the CDC’s website said in an update Monday about Norway, the country with the highest human development index in the world. “If you must travel to Norway, make sure you are fully vaccinated before travel.”