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Partial closure in Copenhagen, Odense, Århus and several municipalities in the capital and Zeeland.
This is the clear announcement that Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen will make in a video on her own Facebook page on Sunday evening, Danish TV2 reports.
All of Denmark is eagerly awaiting stricter crown restrictions after the alarming development in infection rates in recent days.
The Danes and neighboring countries with close Danish connections don’t have long to wait.
Already at 08.15 on Monday morning, Health Minister Magnus Heunicke has called a meeting of party health officials at the Folketinget national assembly on the infection situation.
And the representatives of the parties will preferably appear physically at the Folketing, not just digitally as in the crisis preparatory meeting on Sunday. This meeting was also scheduled less than a day in advance.
Exams and school closed
According to Danish media, little has been known about the specific austerity measures from Sunday’s deliberations, other than that requirements for tests can be introduced locally and that test centers should have longer opening hours.
Demand for an extended Christmas break by schools to prevent physical transport of the COVID-19 infection was a dominant theme among health politicians and infection control experts on Saturday.
Already on Sunday, the first major high school launched an extraordinary crown closure.
All 7., 8., and ninth-grade students at Hellebækskolen in Elsinore will have home enrollment starting this Monday, and classrooms will be closed until Monday, January 4, the principal informs Danish TV2.
Worst among the young
The major age groups in the Danish infection wave are 10-19 and 20-29 years.
Both Health Minister and Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced “consistent and stricter measures” following Sunday’s digital crisis meeting.
The infection situation in Europe per. Sunday December 6
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 have been diagnosed with an infection worldwide. 1,520,082 people have died so far in the pandemic.
Source: European Office for Infectious Disease Control (ECDC)
(NTB).
