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Denmark's Covid-19 infection rate reaches highest point since November 2020

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Denmark's Covid-19 infection rate reaches highest point since November 2020
Sundhedsminister Magnus Heunicke (S) mødes med partiledere i Sundhedsministeriet for at drøfte vacciner og vaccinationskalenderen. Vaccinationskalenderen er ikke blevet opdateret siden midten af april, og myndighederne ventes også måske i denne uge at komme med en melding om vaccinen fra Johnson & Johnson.

Another 542 people were diagnosed with Covid-19 in Denmark on Tuesday - some 60 percent more than Monday's total number of new cases.

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Another 542 people have been diagnosed with Covid-19 in Denmark in the past 24 hours, according to figures from the Statens Serum Institut (SSI).

This is an increase of 60 percent in new cases from July 5th to July 6th.

Also increasing is the contact rate, which the Ministry of Health (Sundhedsministeriet) said is now 1.2. That means every 10 infected people infect an average of 12 others.

This is the highest contact rate since November 2020, SSI reports.

The ministry wrote on Twitter that the increased contact rate indicates a rise, which may be related to the more contagious Delta variant, but also “uncertainty due to changes in test behaviour.”  On July 1st, appointments were no longer required for PCR tests in Denmark. 

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Although it is uncertain how contagious the Delta variant is, the University of Melbourne in Australia has estimated that the Delta variant to be about 50 percent more contagious than the Alpha variant.

Infections have been increasing since reaching their lowest level at the end of June with 149 daily infections. 

SSI also reported that on July 6th, the total number of inpatients increased by three, which means that 43 people were admitted with coronavirus to one of the country's hospitals that morning. Eight of them are in an intensive care unit, while eight are connected to a respirator.

One new death has also been reported.

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