Norway sovereign wealth fund chief diagnosed with COVID-19

The chief executive of Norway's $1.2 trillion sovereign wealth fund has been diagnosed with coronavirus and is showing mild symptoms, he said on Thursday.

"This means that I am now isolated in my apartment in Oslo where I will be working from for the next couple of weeks," Nicolai Tangen wrote in a post on his LinkedIn account. He added that a number of his colleagues at the fund, which has its offices in central Oslo, had been quarantined as a result of his positive COVID-19 test, taken on Wednesday, and that he was not sure how he caught the virus.

"Reports so far are that they all feel ok," Tangen said.