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Denmark changes travel advice: These are the new coronavirus guidelines

The Danish foreign ministry has made broad changes to its official travel advice due to the risk of spread of new coronavirus.

Published: 7 February 2020 16:44 CET
Denmark changes travel advice: These are the new coronavirus guidelines
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has acted after a number of other countries introduced travel restrictions for people traveling to or from China.

Around 75 pieces of official travel advice have been changed, the ministry confirmed in a press statement.

In the press release, the ministry states that its updated travel guidance is a consequence of measures introduced by several countries, such as quarantine and screening travellers for high temperature. As such, Denmark’s guidelines are being updated to account for new restrictions.

The Danish Health Authority (Sundhedsstyrelsen) still believes that coronavirus infection is not currently spreading outside of China, the ministry press release also states.

But the ministry’s guidelines advise Danes to be cautious when travelling to a range of destinations.

In its travel advice for Canada, the ministry advises citizens to “remain alert” in “the whole country”, citing confirmed Canadian cases of coronavirus infection. A similar warning is applied to the page for South Korea.

Advice issued on February 3rd recommends extreme caution in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan; essential journeys only in all of China and no travel at all to Hubei province, where the coronavirus outbreak originated.

The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs travel guidelines can be found in full (in Danish) here.

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Public Health Agency recommends two Covid doses next year for elderly

Sweden's Public Health Agency is recommending that those above the age of 80 should receive two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine a year, once in the spring and once in the autumn, as it shifts towards a longer-term strategy for the virus.

Published: 23 December 2022 10:53 CET
Public Health Agency recommends two Covid doses next year for elderly

In a new recommendation, the agency said that those living in elderly care centres, and those above the age of 80 should from March 1st receive two vaccinations a year, with a six month gap between doses. 

“Elderly people develop a somewhat worse immune defence after vaccination and immunity wanes faster than among young and healthy people,” the agency said. “That means that elderly people have a greater need of booster doses than younger ones. The Swedish Public Health Agency considers, based on the current knowledge, that it will be important even going into the future to have booster doses for the elderly and people in risk groups.” 

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People between the ages of 65 and 79 years old and young people with risk factors, such as obesity, diabetes, poor kidney function or high blood pressure, are recommended to take one additional dose per year.

The new vaccination recommendation, which will start to apply from March 1st next year, is only for 2023, Johanna Rubin, the investigator in the agency’s vaccination programme unit, explained. 

She said too much was still unclear about how long protection from vaccination lasted to institute a permanent programme.

“This recommendation applies to 2023. There is not really an abundance of data on how long protection lasts after a booster dose, of course, but this is what we can say for now,” she told the TT newswire. 

It was likely, however, that elderly people would end up being given an annual dose to protect them from any new variants, as has long been the case with influenza.

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