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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (LifeSiteNews) — The Danish government will lift all COVID-19 restrictions as of February 1, and wants to stop classifying COVID as a dangerous disease.
“I would like … Covid-19 to no longer be categorized as a disease dangerous to society as of February 1,” wrote Danish Health Minister Magnus Heunicke in a letter to lawmakers.
This would mean the de facto lifting of all domestic restrictions such as mask mandates, vaccine passports, and the early closings of bars and restaurants.
This comes as the Scandinavian country of some 5.8 million people logged more than 46,000 new COVID cases on Tuesday.
“Our current assessment is that the epidemic will soon peak” Heunicke wrote on Twitter, saying he was confident that the government has a “good control of hospitalization rates.”
Heunicke attributed the low rates of hospitalizations to the less severe omicron variant on the one hand, and to the fact that 3.5 millions of Danes have been vaccinated against COVID-19 on the other, though some experts have challenged the idea that COVID vaccines help reduce deaths and hospitalizations based on data
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