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Health Minister Magnus Heunicke has also called for COVID-19 no longer categorized as a socially critical disease from the same date.
Certain measures involving testing and isolation when traveling to Denmark will continue to exist in one format or another for a further four weeks, at least.
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is expected to hold a press conference at some point today to confirm the decision.
In other corona news:
– From 11 February, visitors to the UK will no longer have to take a test within 48 hours of their arrival – a requirement that has long been considered a trick to extract money from tourists. It has not been necessary to take a test before departure since earlier this month.
– The proportion of patients with corona who were hospitalized for another reason has, according to the latest estimates, grown to 30-40 percent.
– Two teachers at Copenhagen Business School have compared the corona passport with the Jewish passport that Nazi Germany requested in the 1930s, and they have therefore refused to teach until the requirement to show a passport is lifted. CBS has distanced itself from the “unfortunate comparisons”.
– The National Board of Health has decided that people who recover from corona without symptoms can break their self-isolation four days after the positive test.
– Over 3.5 million Danes have now received their booster – almost 60 percent of the entire population.
– The World Health Organization has discovered a sub-variant of Omicron in over 40 countries. It has been called BA2, and there have been cases in Denmark.
– Unvaccinated people have been denied access to bars, restaurants and cinemas in Greenland. The island’s current restrictions continue until February 14.
Corona infections have been recorded in 259 nursing homes – a quarter of the country’s total. According to SSI, there are currently 810 confirmed cases among residents nationwide – up from 615 last week. Last week, the homes accounted for 41 deaths. Last January, the weekly death rate reached 110.
– Yesterday afternoon, a record 46,590 infections were confirmed and 14 deaths. There were 213,616 PCR tests, so a positive rate of 21.8 percent. The number of inpatients is 918, of which 44 are in intensive care and 28 in respirator. About 2,856 of the new cases are reinfections.
Source: The Nordic Page