Although the number of infected and hospitalized with corona has increased recently, Denmark is a completely different place than last winter, where it ended with another major shutdown.
It writes Minister of Health Magnus Heunicke (S) on Facebook, where he highlights the vaccines as the big difference.
– Our hospitals are busy, but as for the inpatients who are infected with covid-19, we are only about one-eighth of where we were when we had the most inpatients in early 2021, writes Magnus Heunicke.
– We are closely following the movements in the corona pandemic, the latest initiative is the expansion of our wastewater testing, and the Danish epidemic is under control despite the increases here in October, he writes.
In October, there were on average almost 600 cases of infection per day, which is an increase from 437 in September. It shows figures from the Statens Serum Institut (SSI).
When it was worst in the hospitals at the beginning of January, there were just under 1000 patients with corona in the country’s hospitals at one time.
On Tuesday, there were 120 hospitalized with coronavirus in the Danish hospitals.
On the other hand, it is on a par with the same time last year, before the second wave of infection really took off.
While Denmark no longer has restrictions, the situation is different in some countries with poorer adherence to vaccines.
On Thursday, a major shutdown in Latvia will take effect as the country’s hospitals are under pressure.
This means, among other things, that all shops and companies – with the exception of necessary shops such as supermarkets and pharmacies – must remain closed.
The country’s schools must return to distance education, while people are only allowed to leave home between 8pm and 5am if they have a special reason for doing so.
In this context, Magnus Heunicke notes that Denmark is in a good position when looking at the high level of support for vaccinations. 85 percent of everyone over the age of 12 is fully vaccinated.
– Denmark is open, and we have the epidemic under control. And we know exactly what to do when we see incipient increases this fall. Vaccines, testing, detection, isolation, writes Heunicke.
Source: The Nordic Page