page_title: COVID-19 pandemic in Norway
section_title: Statistics
hierarchical_section_title: COVID-19 pandemic in Norway / Statistics
caption_attribution_description: English: ERplot19
context_page_description: The COVID-19 pandemic in Norway is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. On 26 February 2020, the virus was confirmed to have spread to Norway. The number of cases increased rapidly during the month of March, thereby necessitating a number of safety measures aiming to achieve physical distancing to be introduced on 12 March. The first death attributed to COVID-19 was documented on the same day. Most confirmed cases that were traced to outside Norway were Norwegian tourists returning from Austria and Italy.
  As of 26 July 2020, Norway has performed 420,528 tests and reported 9,111 confirmed cases and 255 deaths.
  A senior Norwegian Institute of Public Health consultant said one of the major reasons why the mortality rate was significantly lower than in other European countries was the high number of tests performed in Norway.
caption: Growth trajectory of cases in Norway. Exponential growth (black line, doubling every day), cases data from FHI (blue points), fitted line for case data (red line).
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