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Today in Denmark: A round-up of the latest news on Wednesday

Michael Barrett
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Today in Denmark: A round-up of the latest news on Wednesday
Photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix

Find out what's going on in Denmark today with The Local's short round-up of the news in less than five minutes.

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Government to provide summary of illegal mink directive

The government is today scheduled to present to parliament its version of events that led to an illegal order to cull minks.

After mutated forms of coronavirus were detected in minks at Danish fur farms, the government ordered all animals in the country to be destroyed, including at farms with no cases of coronavirus. But it later emerged that there was no legal basis for such an order.

With opposition parties now demanding a full enquiry into the illegal directive, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s government will present its account of what occurred today.

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Where are Denmark’s current coronavirus hotspots?

We’ve taken a look at the latest data for infection levels by municipality in Denmark, and it’s fair to say that no part of the country has been spared the current high numbers.

Areas close to Copenhagen as well as spots in Jutland appear have relatively high current infection rates, when measured as the number per 100,000 residents over the last week.

We’ll be updating our map today, so you can see the visualisation.

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Denmark currently has 259 Covid-19 inpatients, 41 of which are in intensive care, with 26 of these receiving ventilator treatment. This is a stark increase from the early part of the autumn but still lower than the peak in the spring.

New Danish motorway could be a step closer

Plans to build a new motorway in Jutland appear to have taken a step forward after the Danish Road Directorate (Vejdirektoratet) completed its recommendations for a possible motorway connecting Billund, where Denmark’s second-largest airport is located, with other parts of Jutland.

The roads authority has based its recommendations on issues including social and environmental impacts related to building the motorway, Jyllands-Posten reports.

Report raises concerns over increasing obesity in teenagers

A report by the National Institute for Public Health (Statens Institut for Folkesundhed) concludes that as many as one in five teenagers in Denmark is overweight, with that figure increasing to one in three if their parents are from lower education backgrounds, news wire Ritzau reports this morning.

Those figures are alarming, because they suggest an increase in the number of overweight adults in coming years and therefore higher prevalence of associated diseases such as diabetes, as well as an increased risk factor for cancer, a spokesperson from the Danish Cancer Society said.

Danish vocabulary:

  • Risikofaktor: risk factor
  • Redegørelse: summary, account
  • Anbefaling: recommendation
  • At kræve: to demand, to require

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