"Theaters, cinemas, concert halls will have to close," Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced on Friday in an attempt to curb the pandemic.
The Scandinavian country has recorded an all-time high of over 11,000 cases in the past 24 hours, including a new high of over 2,500 of the Omicron variant.
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Denmark, at the forefront of sequencing, is one of the countries in the world to have detected the most cases of Omicron on its soil and the authorities expect it to become the majority in the coming days.
Announced after a meeting with party leaders, these announced measures have yet to be approved by Parliament.
Acceleration of booster doses, authorization for serious cases of an anti-Covid drug from the Merck laboratory, vaccination of 5-11 year olds ... the government has fired on all wood in the face of the record number of cases every day.
Avoid re-containment
"Our goal remains to keep society as open as possible," said Mette Frederiksen, excluding lockdowns like the one decided in spring 2020 "because we have vaccines".
The government will also demand the closure of other gathering places, such as amusement parks or convention centers, or even museums.
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If the Christmas holidays have already been extended to counter the surge in cases, the executive still plans to return to school when the new school year begins on January 5.
Nightlife, already planed last week, will be further shortened, with bars and restaurants closing at 11 p.m. and a ban on serving alcohol after 10 p.m.
Almost a month after its identification, the Omicron variant appears very contagious and seems to escape vaccines in part, with however an unknown as to the severity of the infections.
In Denmark, around 500 people are currently hospitalized, including a few dozen in intensive care.
Hospitals expect to see the number of hospitalizations rise to 1,000 in a country of 5.8 million people.