Israeli Embassy demonstration turns violent
An anti-Israel demonstration turned violent, Friday, when pro-Palestine supporters clashed with police and threw stones and fireworks at Israel’s embassy in Hellerup. A police spokesman estimated that around 4,000 demonstrators gathered outside the…
MoreThe Week That Was, May 10th – May 16th 2021:
Coronavirus/ What happened last week: Denmark is lagging far behind in the inoculation race since dropping the Astra Zeneca and Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccines from the national roll-out – after having the…
MoreStinky mink dug up
Minister for Food and Agriculture Rasmus Prehn was forced to apologise for the ’noise and stink’ as the authorities started to exhume tons of dead minks, Thursday. Denmark was the world’s largest exporter of mink…
MoreInfections up but ‘no cause for concern’
The number of new corona cases rose sharply over the public holiday. 1,355 infections were reported Thursday, the highest since mind-January and 109 up on the previous day. The positivity rate of those…
MoreDenmark falls behind in vaccination race
Denmark is lagging far behind in the inoculation race since dropping the Astra Zeneca and Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccines from the national roll-out. After having the highest COVID-19 vaccination rate in the…
MoreShould I Stay or Should I Go? Tourists see Denmark as ‘relatively safe’
Foreign tourists see Denmark as one of the safest countries to travel to in northern Europe as the epidemic slows down. A new 8-country survey of tourists’ COVID-19 Risk Perception and Vacation Behaviour…
MoreChina ridicules Fogh’s democracy summit
The Copenhagen Democracy Summit 2021 held this week has been dismissed as a ‘political farce’ by the Chinese authorities. Even before the virtual summit, hosted by former prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, got underway,…
MoreJustice Minister offers apology for concealing intelligence report
Justice Minister Nick Hækkerup has apologised for taking six months to inform parliament about the threat to children with links to Denmark in Syrian detention camps. Mr Hækkerup admitted last month he was…
MoreVirus updates
Stable infection figures…’R’ rate steady…New inner city testing centre….Denmark hosts EU emergency storage facility…. 925 new corona cases were reported Tuesday, five down on the previous day, although the number of people hospitalised…
MoreConservative leader tries to whip up support for J&J vaccine
Head of the Conservative party, Søren Pape Poulsen has urged his fellow party leaders to get the outlawed Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine and show the public it’s safe. Denmark became the first…
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