For pupils from preschool to tenth grade, this means “extended Christmas holidays” from December 15 to January 4, said Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen at a press conference in Copenhagen on Wednesday evening.
According to the Ritzau news agency, emergency care is to be offered; As far as possible, the children should also receive online lessons. As Frederiksen said, discos and similar nightlife facilities will also have to close on Friday. Concerts with more than 50 standing guests indoors are also prohibited from then on.
“No lockdown”
Even if restrictions were introduced, it was not a lockdown, underlined Frederiksen. It is also believed that it is possible to keep large sections of society open. You ask to work from the home office and also to cancel Christmas parties.
In Denmark, the last corona measures remaining in the country until then were lifted, in autumn the Scandinavian country then recorded rapidly increasing numbers of new infections. Most recently, these had risen to record levels of over 6,000 new infections per day. In addition, 577 cases of the Omikron variant of the coronavirus have so far been registered in the five million inhabitant country, this number is increasing sharply every day. These include 107 cases confirmed by whole genome sequencing and 470 cases that were detected by a variant PCR test.
Source: Nachrichten
