Denmark speeds up reopening as epidemic stabilises


  • World
  • Friday, 16 Apr 2021

FILE PHOTO: People walk on a street as stores reopen amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Copenhagen, Denmark March 1, 2021. Ritzau Scanpix/Philip Davali via REUTERS/File Photo

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark on Friday advanced its reopening plan on the back of stable infection rates, allowing indoor serving at restaurants and bars and some football fans to cheer from the stands from April 21, weeks earlier than originally planned.

Denmark has avoided a third wave of the COVID-19 epidemic after imposing wide lockdown measures in December, which slowed the epidemic considerably to between 500-700 daily infections from several thousands in December.

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