Government refuses to back down on controversial Syria refugees policy
Despite international criticism the government is preparing to take ’drastic steps’ to send as many Syrian refugees home as possible. In an official parliamentary response last week Integration Minister Mattias Tesfaye stated very firmly…
MoreLate night agreement: Restrictions eased from Thursday
All children will return to full-time schooling on Thursday after a cross-party majority reached agreement early this morning on a wider reopening of society. Gyms, cinemas, and theatres can also open up again…
MoreDenmark drops Johnson & Johnson vaccine
Denmark has become the first country exclude Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) Covid-19 jabs from its vaccination programme. Following a meeting, Monday, between Health Minister Magnus Heunicke and all political parties, the Danish Health…
MoreBusiness boss attacks health supremo
Former business minister Brian Mikkelsen has urged lawmakers to strip Søren Brostrøm, head of the Danish Health Authority, of his ‘wide-ranging’ powers. After the DHA removed Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine from its…
MoreVirus updates
Stable positivity rate….Denmark ‘world’s most cautious’….New variations discovered in Copenhagen….Discarded vaccines allowed on voluntary basis…. 761 new corona cases were reported Monday, based on 151,115 PCR tests, a positivity rate of 0.50 %, slightly…
MoreUnemployment falls as society reopens
After months of lengthening jobless queues the unemployment rate fell in March to 128,600, around 4.5% of the labour force, from 130,400 the preceding month. The latest figures from Statistics Denmark also show…
MoreEU crisis funding earmarked for climate initiatives
The government is aiming to spend much of the money that Denmark receives from the EU crisis fund for pandemic recovery on achieving its ambitious target to cut carbon emissions by at least…
MoreLøkke blamed for right-wing chaos
Lars Løkke Rasmussen is personally responsible for the division within the opposition’s ranks according to the former prime minister’s most faithful ally in Danish politics, Claus Hjort Frederiksen. In an interview with Berlingske,…
MoreVirus: Positivity rate at 4-month high
867 new corona cases were reported Sunday, based on 175,526 PCR tests, a positivity rate of 0.53 %, the highest since January. The number of people hospitalised by covid rose by 5, to…
MoreDenmark sends 53 ventilators to ‘Indian friends’
Denmark is sending 53 ventilators to help coronavirus-hit India and has also donated a million euros to the Red Cross to help fight the ever-growing epidemic in the country. In a press release…
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