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Sweden, Norway, Finland, Netherlands also lifting restrictions, will no longer be able to enforce emergency powers.
They acknowledge Covid now as an endemic disease.
Just as the Danish government did in September, when it lifted all restrictions, it will also stop calling Covid-19 a “societally critical disease”, meaning that it will no longer have the legal basis to introduce wide-ranging curbs.
Denmark is the latest European country in recent days to announce it is dropping most or nearly all measures as it follows in the footsteps of the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands even as infection rates remain at, or close to, record highs across the continent.
In the Netherlands, authorities have decided to relax some restrictions as of Wednesday, even as the number of infections continues to rise.
Sweden, Norway and Finland all announced this week that they were likely to ease restrictions in the coming days and weeks.
“We can tolerate more cases now, so then it is natural to look at easing restrictions, and that is what we are doing . . . This means we can live with a higher infection rate in society without the health system blowing up,” Ingvild Kjerkol, Norway’s health minister, told TV2.
Sanna Marin, Finnish prime minister, said that the opening up of “low-risk” cultural and sporting events and longer hours for restaurants could be on a “shorter timetable than expected”.
Sweden said on Wednesday that it would extend its existing restrictions for 14 days but expected, on the current trajectory, to lift most of them on February 9.