Two months after the end of all Corona restrictions and a Freedom Day, Denmark is announcing new Covid rules. Before that, the number of infections had risen sharply.
Munich – Denmark was seen by many other countries as a role model and example in the coronavirus pandemic *. Germany’s Scandinavian neighbor, with around 5.8 million inhabitants, had the number of infections under control thanks to the disciplined application of the measures by the citizens and a high vaccination rate. As of November 3, around 77 percent of citizens had been vaccinated against Corona at least once – even without compulsory vaccination *. It is one of the highest vaccination rates in the world.
After Freedom Day: Denmark reintroduces corona rules
“Corona under control, now we can reap the fruits of our hard work”, Health Minister Magnus Heunicke declared on September 10, when all Corona requirements were dropped – including the mask requirement. On September 11th, the Danes celebrated a so-called Freedom Day exuberantly. But at the beginning of November, the corona infection numbers exploded again between Jutland and Copenhagen, similar to what is currently the case with our southern neighbor, Germany. And that despite the vaccination campaign.
As Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Monday evening (November 8th), the government has now followed advice from epidemiologists to reintroduce the 3G rule to contain Corona *. Covid-19 * will be re-classified as a “threat to society” on the recommendation of the committee, said the 43-year-old Frederiksen.
Denmark: New corona requirements due to increasing numbers of infections
The situation is serious: According to a report by Tagesspiegel , the SSI health institute registered 2598 new infections with the coronavirus in Denmark on Thursday (November 4), and it was the highest daily value so far for the entire year 2021. At the comparison time a year ago, around 1000 new corona cases * were registered every day.
Nevertheless, the renewed tightening of the rules comes as a surprise and sudden – not only because of Freedom Day.
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“We will never go into lockdown again,” the epidemiologist Lone Simonsen recently told the news magazine Spiegel . It is now a pandemic of the unvaccinated. “It no longer poses a threat to society as a whole. We can now let it run free, even if it could cause major outbreaks locally. But these will no longer be as deadly as they were before the introduction of the vaccines, ”said Simonsen in the conversation. So now the government in Copenhagen is again speaking of a “threat to society” – and is adjusting it. (pm) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA
