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Denmark records highest Covid-19 positive test rate since January 2021

Elizabeth Anne Brown
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Denmark records highest Covid-19 positive test rate since January 2021
(ARKIV) Læge ifører sig værnemidler og demonstrerer en podning i det nye podetelt på Rigshospitalet i København, torsdag den 2. april 2020. Teltet skal øge hospitalets podningskapacitet og er ved at blive indrettet til at tage imod endnu flere patienter til podning for coronavirus. For første gang under corona var der i de sidste uger af 2020 overdødelighed i Danmark. Onsdag træder nye restriktioner i kraft, der skal redde liv. Det skriver Ritzau, onsdag den 6. januar 2021.. (Foto: Niels Christian Vilmann/Ritzau Scanpix)

Covid cases and hospitalisations are creeping back up in Denmark after June's celebrated dip – and the Delta variant is causing the majority of cases, according to health officials.

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On July 12th Denmark’s infectious disease agency, the Statens Serum Institute, reported 848 new coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours, a sharp uptick from the previous day's total of 609. These tallies reflect only PCR tests and not the results of the more than 138,000 antigen tests administered in the last 24 hours. 

Overall, 1.09 percent of all PCR tests were positive – the highest percent positive since January 2021. 

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Eight more Covid-19 patients were hospitalised today, bringing the national total to 37. Nine patients are in intensive care and seven are on ventilators. 

READ MORE: How tourists and visitors can get a Covid test

What's causing the increase? 

Despite recently reopening to tourists, Denmark can't blame visitors for the rising case numbers. Out of 8,928 tourists given PCR tests over the last seven days, only 84 tested positive.

Notably, the Delta variant of Covid-19 now makes up the majority of new cases in Denmark, the SSI announced last week. SSI now considers the Delta variant about twice as contagious as the original strain. 

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