Norway Norway Wonders If It Should Have Been More Like Sweden

Published 30 May 2020

On Wednesday night, Norway’s prime minister Erna Solberg went on Norwegian television to make a startling admission: she had panicked.Some, even most, of the tough measures imposed in Norway’s lockdown now looked like steps too far. “Was it necessary to close schools?” she mused. “Perhaps not.” Richard Orange writes in The Telegraph that no one doubts Norway’s success in bringing the pandemic under control. But this success has come at a prohibitive social and economic cost.