Norway’s ageing king, Harald V, has been admitted to a hospital and is receiving remedy for an an infection, the Norwegian palace stated in a short assertion Monday.

”The king has been identified with an an infection that must be handled, and can due to this fact stay in hospital for a number of days,” the palace stated, including that the situation of the 86-year-old monarch was steady.

No different particulars have been launched besides that the monarch is at Rikshospitalet, Oslo’s major hospital.

Harald, who has been seen utilizing crutches in recent times, has been hospitalized a number of occasions in current months. In December, he was additionally admitted to a hospital resulting from an an infection and was handled with intravenous antibiotics. He additionally was hospitalized in August for 3 days with a fever.

He went by way of a profitable operation to exchange a coronary heart valve in October 2020 after being hospitalized with respiration difficulties.

The inheritor to the throne, Crown Prince Haakon, has stepped in and brought over his father’s duties.

Harald’s duties as Norway’s head of state are ceremonial, and he holds no political energy. He ascended to the throne following the dying of his father, King Olav, in 1991.

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