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LATEST: Danish Health Minister Magnus Heuniche has summoned health spokespeople from all parties in the Folketinget national assembly to a digital gathering on Sunday morning on the development of serious infections in Denmark, reports Danish TV2 and various other outlets. Danes on Saturday night.
Then concrete measures and a tightening beyond the measures that are determined for the Copenhagen area are expected from next Monday before the latest infection figures arrive.
– No one should doubt that we are ready to implement the necessary measures, writes the Minister of Health on his Facebook page at 8:00 p.m., a few hours after Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen seriously worried about the development of the crown.
Early school holidays?
An extended Christmas break from schools, for students to stay home and reduce the sending of infections back and forth, is the recurring theme in the Danish media on Saturday night.
Two of the Folketing parties, the Danish People’s Party and the Unity List, have already managed to present proposals for school closings and extending the Christmas holidays for students in the upper stages of High School.
Danish infection control experts, regardless of politicians, point to dropout as a measure. In Denmark, the increase in infection is highest among young people.
Earlier Saturday, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen issued warnings about stricter crown measures as a result of record high infection rates in Denmark.
After 2,115 new cases were reported on Saturday, he writes on Facebook that “we are seriously considering whether to tighten restrictions further.”
– The infection is too high. Too tall. The increase we have seen over several days is worrying and there are reasons to take it very seriously, he writes.
She asks the Danes to carefully consider whether they should meet fewer people so that the chains of infection are broken, and hopes better control is possible by Christmas.
Saturday’s numbers are the highest measured during the pandemic, even though it covers more than 24 hours.
Figures from the Statens Serum Institut (SSI) typically show cases in the last 24 hours, but due to a technical error in SSI, the new figures also show a number of cases that should have been registered on Friday.
878 deaths
AS PRISON: There are strict infection restrictions around the European Handball Championship in Denmark. Norway coach Thorir Hergeirsson Sydbank Arena Kolding arrives here. Doctor Nils Leraand with glasses walks through the door. Photo: Vidar Ruud, NTB.
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More people are currently being tested than this spring, and thus more are being recorded without symptoms. The proportion that tests positive is now 2.25 percent. Since Tuesday, the turnout has exceeded 2 percent.
In total, almost 88,900 people have been diagnosed with corona in Denmark and 878 deaths have been recorded.
On Saturday, eleven new crown-related deaths were reported.
Doubling since october
On Friday, the Copenhagen capital area was raised to risk level four out of five levels on the covid scale for the first time.
Therefore, Health Minister Magnus Heunicke writes that such a high level of infection can put incipient pressure on hospital capacity.
Christian Wejse, a specialist at Aarhus University, is concerned and says the numbers are too high.
– It’s serious even if it takes six hours since yesterday. We see some very high numbers overall this week, he says.
– Week 49 will probably bring more than 10,000 infected, and it is really serious. Now we double the figures we had in October, says Wejse, according to the Ritzaus news agency.
The infection situation in Europe as of Saturday, December 5
These countries are currently experiencing the highest infection pressure in Europe, ordered by the number of corona infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days. (Figures in parentheses show the number of deaths per 100,000 in the same period.)
* Georgia: 1,438 infected (13.4 dead)
* Serbia: 1,387 infected (10.0 dead)
* Montenegro: 1,187 infected (14.9 dead)
* Luxembourg: 1,171 infected (13.8 dead)
* Croatia: 1,142 infected (19.0 dead)
* Lithuania: 1,062 infected (9.1 dead)
* Slovenia: 988 infected (27.1 dead)
* Hungary: 750 infected (20.6 dead)
* Sweden: 698 infected (4.3 deaths)
* Austria: 682 infected (16.8 dead)
* North Macedonia: 668 infected (20.0 dead)
* Switzerland: 628 infected (14.8 dead)
In Norway, there have been 111 new cases of infection and 0.9 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days.
For the other Nordic countries, the figures per 100,000 inhabitants are 317 infected and 1.5 dead in Denmark, 109 infected and 0.7 dead in Finland and 59 infected and 0.3 dead in Iceland.
So far, 65,777,945 people worldwide have been diagnosed with an infection. 1,520,082 people have died so far in the pandemic.
Source: European Office for Infectious Disease Control (ECDC)
(NTB).
