More mask, more vaccinal pass, plus gauge or limited hours for bars and restaurants … The return to normal will take place while the contaminations explode but that the intensive care services are empty .
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Is it the beginning of the end of the COVID-19 epidemic? This looks like it in Any cases in Denmark, where the Prime Minister, Frederiksen, announced, Wednesday, January 26, the lifting of almost all national restrictions from February 1st. The disease will no longer be considered as threatening for society. And this, despite the records of contamination beaten in recent days in the kingdom of 5.8 million inhabitants, where 46,747 cases were registered Wednesday and where the incidence rate reached 4,753 cases per 100,000 inhabitants of Seven days, the highest rate in Europe, in front of that of France.
At the twenty-sixth press conference organized on this subject by the government since the beginning of the pandemic – and “the last”, dared to hope for the director of public health, Soren Brostrom -, MET FREDERIKSEN N ‘ did not hide his joy and optimism. “We can start to regain a smile. We are ready to come out of the shadow of the coronavirus,” she said.
The announcement of the lifting of restrictions will have surprised anyone. Tuesday, the Scientific Council, responsible for making recommendations to the government, had spoken to that effect. The Commission on the Pandemic, which brings together all political formations in Parliament, agreed, Wednesday afternoon.
From 1 er February, the port of the mask will therefore be more mandatory, the vaccination pass either. The bars and restaurants will find their usual opening hours and nightclubs, closed since December 2021, will be able to resume their activity, like leisure parks or aquatic centers. The gauges disappear and remote work will no longer be recommended. “We will find the life before,” summed up Frederiksen.
Decrease in hospitalizations
Two exceptions, however: the government extends four weeks restrictions at the entrance of the territory. A test may be required as well as quarantine, depending on the country of origin. The Premier also called upon to take all possible precautions to protect the most vulnerable seniors. The port of the mask or the vaccination pass may be required locally in retirement homes.
The Minister of Health, Magnus Heunicke, for his part, announced a drop in screening capacity, even if symptomatic people will have to continue to be tested. Denmark is the country that has tested the most since the beginning of the pandemic, which explains how the Nordic Kingdom avoided the worst, with only 3,565 deaths, Estime Ole Flif Olesen, Professor of Public Health at the University of Copenhagen : “Thanks to our screening strategy, we have been able to detect and intervene quickly when there were contamination homes.”
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