Even after 75% of the population has been fully vaccinated, Denmark is still experiencing the COVID spike. Now, in order to control the situation, the Danish health minister has asked more and more people to get vaccinated, else the government will “shut down society”.
In the month of May, Denmark suffered the worst COVID spike where the R number was 2.01. It is the highest since January.
Denmark’s total population is 5.8 million out of which 75 percent inhabitants have been fully vaccinated.
It has been a week since Denmark is getting more than 1000 cases daily. More than 85 percent of the population over the age of 12 has been vaccinated.
Now authorities are threatening to “shut down society,” according to opposition party health spokesman Martin Geertsen, if more Danes don’t take the shot.
“If we are to keep Denmark open, we must have more people get the vaccine,” said Health Minister Magnus Heunicke.
Although the health minister said the vaccine would remain ...