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Danish PM lets her hair down in Friday coronavirus singalong

Mette Frederiksen, the Prime Minister who has driven through one of the fastest and most far-reaching coronavirus lockdowns in Europe, showed her soft side on Friday when she joined in a TV singing event.

Danish PM lets her hair down in Friday coronavirus singalong
Mette Frederiksen showed fairly good singing skills. Photo: Screenshot/Facebook
Frederiksen was filmed in her kitchen and living room, enjoying Danish public broadcaster DR's program 'Fællessang – hver for sig', or 'Community singing, each for themselves'. 
 
Demonstrating a good, powerful singing voice, Frederiksen hit almost all of the notes in her rendition of the '80s classic  “Vågner I natten”, or 'Waking up in the night', by Dodo and the Dodos, which she sang along to while doing the dishes at home. 
 
 
The program on DR, also included 'Kvinde min', or 'my woman, by the Danish '70s rockers Gasolin'. The song, written by the legendary Kim Larsen, was performed by Pernille Rosendahl, lead singer of the Danish rock band The Storm. 
 
“One of the things I think is so nice about it is that Kim makes a love statement for a woman. But he also says in the text that he is not perfect,” Rosendahl told DR.  “And that, I think, is very good to remember in this time. We're just people.” 
 
 
The singalong, which DR started running on Friday nights a week ago, and which it will continue throughout the coronavirus lockdown, features some of the country's most popular singers singing classic songs, either their own or covers. 
 
The singer Michael Falch sang his classic 'I et land uden høje bjerge', 'In a land without high mountains'. 
 
At the request of the haulage firm Svend Munding Transport, Dafne Stilund Nielsen, who won The Voice Junior in 2017, sung 'Lyse nætter', or 'Bright nights' by Alberte Winding. 
 
The programme also featured Faroese singer Teitur Lassen, who performed 'Regnvejrsdag i november' ('Rainy Day in November'). 
 

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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.

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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