The state health institute SSI also came to the conclusion that the variant is spreading further, Heunicke wrote on Tuesday on Twitter. He added that an epidemic is seen growing and a record number of 13,558 confirmed corona cases were added on Tuesday.
As of Tuesday, the SSI had registered more than 26,000 omicron cases, including 1,367 confirmed by whole genome sequencing and just under 25,000 detected by variant PCR testing. According to the latest SSI report on the spread of Omikron, the registered Omikron cases already corresponded to around 45.3 percent of all new corona infections on December 15. The scientists waited for outstanding data for the following days. The trend was steeply upwards.
Denmark had reported new record highs in the number of new infections in the past few days and introduced tightened restrictions. In a European comparison, the Scandinavian country has the highest seven-day incidence in the entire European Economic Area.
Source: Nachrichten
