Norway again imposed restrictions on travel with Spain and several other European Union countries on Friday, but exceptionally lifted those same measures for the filming of the upcoming Mission Impossible .
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Daring 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 the seventh installment 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 Minister of Agriculture and Food, Olaug Bollestad, during of a press conference.
"This means that not everyone will be able to see these beautiful kids who will play because they will be relatively apart," she added. The filming of the film, subsidized to nearly 50 million crowns (4.67 million euros) by the Norwegian Film Institute, is expected to take place in the north-west of the kingdom, known for its majestic fjords. Olaug Bollestad justified the decision by the importance of making known “nature, culture and history” of Norway throughout the world, already highlighted by the previous opus, Mission Impossible: Fallout . Tom Cruise and the film crews had already obtained similar exemptions from the British government's Secretary for Culture for the part of the filming to take place in England.
Return from quarantine
Faced with the rebound in contamination in Spain, the Norwegian government has on the other hand decided to impose again, from midnight, a quarantine of ten days to people coming from or returning from this tourist destination popular with 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.
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Oslo, however, lifted them with Hungary and brought the number of Swedish regions to seven, including the border county of Värmland but not Stockholm, to which travel is no longer officially advised. The Covid-19 pandemic 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 so far counted 9,085 cases of the new coronavirus identified, including 255 fatalities.