Prime Minister: Vaccine is our moon landing
At a brief press conference following the vaccination of the first care home residents on Sunday, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Denmark expects to receive a further 40,000 vaccines today (Monday) in addition…
More8 out of 10 support vaccinations
Despite initial hesitancy there’s now widespread public support for the national vaccination programme. In a new Megafon survey for TV2, 79% respondents said they are ready to be immunised, one of the highest…
More2.6 million more vaccines on the way
Denmark has secured an order for an extra 2.6 million Covid vaccines from Pfizer/Biontech with an expected delivery date of late March, early April, Thomas Senderovitz, Director General of the Danish Medicines Agency, confirmed yesterday….
MoreVirus: ‘Alarming Christmas figures’
The Covid death rate rose to 1,174, Sunday, as a further 2,180 new corona cases were registered. At the same time the positivity rate amongst those being tested has risen to nearly 4%…
MoreLiberal leader signals split with Støjberg
Liberal (Venstre) leader Jacob Ellemann Jensen is ready to support an impeachment trial against his deputy Inger Støjberg, a move that could split Denmark’s biggest opposition party right down the middle. In an…
MoreEncouraging virus figures but hospitals under pressure
There’s good – and bad – corona news this morning. The number of people hospitalised due to COVID-19 has risen to an all-time high – 723 – but at the same time infection…
MoreNo herd immunity before September – EU has bought too few vaccines
Despite the prospect of a national vaccination programme getting underway within days a new study claims Denmark won’t reach herd immunity until September, three months after the U.S., Great Britain, and Canada, because…
MoreBritish warning: Resisting new virus mutation is ‘mission impossible’
A leading British scientist has warned Denmark not to spend too much time or money trying to resist the new B117 mutant coronavirus strain that’s closed down London because it would be ‘mission…
MoreCopenhagen hospitals pray for Christmas miracle
Hospitals in the Copenhagen region are operating at full capacity and hoping for a ’Christmas miracle’. Between 30 and 40 corona patients more are being admitted than discharged every day, which means that,…
MoreConsumers confident despite crisis
Despite the virus problems and the prospect of a new lockdown consumer confidence has risen this month. The latest Statistics Denmark data shows the consumer confidence index increased to -3.8 in December from…
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