Posted on 03. Jan, 2022 in: News

Motorists go green

‘Green car’ sales are at an all-time high.  The latest figures show 56% of all vehicles sold in December were either electric or hybrid, compared to 45% the previous month – 4,765 ‘pure’…

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Posted on 03. Jan, 2022 in: News

Business shorts

More bad news for turkeys…Maersk buys Hong Kong company in multi-billion dollar deal….Ryanair cuts flights from Denmark as corona spreads…. 36,000 turkeys are being destroyed after the highly contagious H5N1 bird flu virus…

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Posted on 30. Dec, 2021 in: News

Health Minister tops cabinet approval ratings as PM drops to 3rd

Health Minister Magnus Heunicke is the voters’ choice for ‘most capable minister’, followed by Finance Minister Nikolaj Wammen who leapfrogs Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen into 2nd place. Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod is ranked…

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Posted on 30. Dec, 2021 in: News

Sky-high infection rate but encouraging hospitalisation figures

21,403 people tested positive, Thursday, 10% down on the previous day’s record high. 205,153 were tested over the 24-hour period as the positivity rate declined slightly to 10.43% – the number of patients…

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Posted on 30. Dec, 2021 in: News

Mentally ill patient awarded DKK300,000 for unlawful restraint

The North Jutland Regional Authority has been ordered to pay a 25-year-old mentally ill patient DKK300,000 in compensation after he was unlawfully placed in a restraining belt for 13 months. Aalborg District Court…

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Posted on 29. Dec, 2021 in: News

No New Year restrictions despite record-high infection rate

A record 23,228 tested positive, Wednesday, the highest daily figure since the pandemic began as the number of people hospitalised rose by a modest 9, to 675. 189,512 people were tested over the 24-hour…

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Posted on 29. Dec, 2021 in: News

DR TV: CIA funded secret experiments on Danish kids

In the 1960s the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) funded secret experiments on hundreds of Danish orphans diagnosed as schizophrenic, a TV documentary aired on state-run DR 1 alleged this week. The documentary…

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Posted on 29. Dec, 2021 in: News

Virus updates

Cause for optimism despite drastic infection rate…Danish commuters turned back at Swedish border…Health supremo defends anti-viral pill…. Although the health authorities have projected the daily infection rate could approach 50,000 by New Year’s…

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Posted on 29. Dec, 2021 in: News

Q3 growth higher than projected

The economy expanded more than initially estimated in the year’s third quarter (Q3). Revised data from Statistics Denmark shows Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rose 1.1 percent after climbing 2.1 percent in the second…

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Posted on 28. Dec, 2021 in: News

Danish economy beats all others during pandemic

The Danish economy has outperformed all other countries during the pandemic. The British Economist magazine has gathered data on five economic and financial indicators — GDP, household incomes, stockmarket performance, capital spending and…

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7:59 – All the Danish News That Fits

7:59 – Danish News Today, is the most reliable source of daily Danish news in English for diplomats, the ex-pat community, the business sector, or anyone in Denmark or abroad seeking an insight into what’s happening in Denmark right now.

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7:59: TODAS LAS NOTICIAS DANESAS DEL MOMENTO.
7:59-Noticias Danesas de Hoy es una nueva fuente de noticias en inglés dirigida especialmente al cuerpo diplomático, extranjeros viviendo en Dinamarca

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