The Danish Ministry of Overseas Affairs has determined to open borders for travelers from areas of the EU/Schengen Space and the UK with infection charges underneath 30 new circumstances per 100,000 residents per week, ranging from December.
The transfer has been taken as part of the regional model for travel guides to the EU and Schengen countries as well as the UK, offered by the Danish MFA on November 19, by means of which Denmark intends to open for the journey to low-infection areas and shut for the journey to high-infection areas.
In response to the Danish Overseas Minister Jeppe Kofod, knowledge printed by the European Centre for Illness Prevention and Management has enabled Denmark to make a considerably extra fine-grained journey information than the present one.
“It [the EDCD data] permits us to maintain low-infection areas open, offered the nations present the well being and take a look at knowledge wanted right here. Equally, we will now with larger precision go in and shut down areas with increased infection,” the minister stated.
He additionally identified that even within the new mannequin for journey guides, a very powerful consideration will proceed to be the well being, security, and safety of Danish residents.
By way of the brand new regionalized mannequin, Denmark intends to make a doable journey to low-risk areas with an infection rated beneath 30 new COVID-19 circumstances per 100,000 residents per week, of nations which might be referred to as orange.
It additionally plans to discourage journey to high-risk areas – which have an infection fee above 75 new circumstances per 100,000 residents per week – week of nations the place the state of affairs in common is nice and thus the entire county is marked in yellow.
“This adaptation of the journey information mannequin has been made doable by the truth that a number of nations – together with Italy and Spain – have begun reporting this knowledge,” the Danish MFA notes in a press launch.
Commenting on the brand new regional mannequin, Minister Kofod additionally identified that the extent of an infection in Europe continues to be alarmingly excessive.
“At a similar time, I have to emphasize that the extent of an infection in Europe continues to be alarmingly excessive and, because of the excessive an infection strain and continued lack of knowledge for quite a lot of nations, there won’t instantly be areas that now open up,” he stated.
The brand new mannequin laws will develop into totally efficient in December, and the advice for self-quarantine will probably be shortened from 14 days after reaching Denmark from an orange nation or areas, to 10 days.
Those that wish to finish elf-isolation early can accomplish that by taking a take a look at that outcome’s destructive, the earliest on the fourth day after their arrival.
As per the present entry guidelines in Denmark, since November 14, 2020, Danish authorities require a recognizable purpose to enter Denmark for individuals residing in all nations of the EU, Schengen, and the UK except for Finland and the Vatican Metropolis, that is thought-about safer.
