(Oslo) Norway again imposed restrictions on travel with Spain on Friday, where the COVID outbreak – 19 starts to rise again, but has exceptionally lifted these same measures for the filming of Mission Impossible .
Posted on 24 July 2020 at 9 o'clock38
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Daredevil actor Tom Cruise and the rest of the cast will be able to travel to the Nordic country this fall to film some scenes from 7 e part of this blockbuster film series, without having to submit to the quarantine imposed on most travelers.
The shooting “will take place in a strict sanitary regime and the members of this production will be kept away from others during their stay in Norway”, said the Minister of Agriculture and Food, Olaug Bollestad, during a press conference.
“This means that not everyone will be able to see these hunks who are going to play, because they will be relatively out of the way,” she added.
The filming of the film, subsidized at nearly 50 million crowns (09, $ 5 million) by the Norwegian Film Institute, is set to take place in the kingdom's northwest, known for its majestic fjords.
M me Bollestad justified the decision by the importance of making known “the nature , culture and history ”of Norway around the world, already highlighted by the previous opus, Mission Impossible: Fallout .
Faced with the rebound in contamination in Spain, the Norwegian government has however decided to impose again, from midnight, a ten-day quarantine for people coming from or returning from this popular tourist destination for the inhabitants of the Scandinavian kingdom.
The restrictions are also in place with Andorra, and they are maintained for Portugal, Luxembourg, Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria.
Oslo however lifted them with Hungary and brought to seven the number of Swedish regions, including the border county of Värmland but not Stockholm, to which travel is no longer officially advised.
The COVID pandemic – 19 is largely under control in Norway, where only three people with the disease were hospitalized on Friday, including one in intensive care.
In total, Norway has to date 9085 identified cases of new coronavirus, including 50 fatal.