According to Søren Brostrøm, this is because some of the new variants are extra contagious. That means “everything has gotten more gasoline,” he says.
– If the epidemic flares up again in Denmark, it will flare up much faster and gain speed faster than what we have known from the two previous waves in our epidemic.
– If we are a little too many together and a little too close, and we infect each other, then there will be more who are infected in that room than we have known in the last year.
– If a chain of infection starts, it will grow faster with more branches and more covered by it, says the director.
In this way, the epidemic has changed character, says Søren Brostrøm. This is because the new, more contagious variants have taken over and thus take up more space in the statistics than the variant that has dominated so far.
And that means we have to do even more of what we already know – such as keeping our distance and limiting our circle of friends, the call reads:
– Therefore, the reopening is more careful and more controlled than the reopening we did in the spring.
– It has to be so that we can maintain our epidemic control, and such that if the epidemic flares up again, that we can then control it, it sounds from Søren Brostrøm.
The government, with its support parties, the Socialist People’s Party, the Unity List and the Radicals, agreed on Wednesday morning on the first steps towards opening up the parts of society that have remained closed as a result of the corona situation.
This means that parts of the retail trade will open from Monday 1 March. And that graduating students in primary and secondary education can return to selected parts of the country.
However, the Folketing will try to make a more long-term plan for how different parts of society should reopen, is the wish from Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) at the press conference.
Source: The Nordic Page