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 She spoke at her third news conference held specially for children,
with adults not allowed to ask questions, since the crisis began. At
the first such briefing on March 16, Solberg told children it was
"OK" to feel scared about the pandemic.
"I think we'll be able to find a vaccine and that means that corona
will continue to exist but because we will be vaccinated we will not
become ill or not so ill from it," Solberg said, adding that, when
she was little, she was sick with measles.
"That is a disease that almost all children in Norway are vaccinated
against now, but that was a very dangerous disease when I was little
... Now it (the coronavirus) will be like with the measles or
rubella."
Other questions asked by children and sent in advance via children's
TV programme Supernytt included: "Do we have enough soap?", "Does
Norway have any money left after the pandemic?" and "Could we have
Antibac that smells nice?"
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"It would be nice, wouldn't it, if it smelled like flowers," said Solberg.
"But the most important is that it works ... And sometimes you find Antibac that
smell better than others."
Norway would have enough supplies of soap to cope with the pandemic, Kjell
Ingolf Ropstad, the Minister for Children and Family, told the same news
conference.
Schools in Norway reopened from April 27 and resumed as normal after the summer
holidays on Aug. 17. Pupils do not need to wear face masks but they must try to
keep socially distant during breaks.
Norway has reported a total of 10,871 COVID-19 infections and 264 deaths to
date.
(Reporting by Gwladys Fouche; Editing by Mike Collett-White)
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