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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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…
MoreHealth 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…
MoreSky-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…
MoreMentally 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…
MoreNo 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…
MoreDR 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…
MoreVirus 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…
MoreQ3 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…
MoreDanish 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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