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Denmark to return to spot check border control

Denmark’s government has decided to reinstate what it calls ‘customised’ controls on all borders, replacing full border control.

Published: 4 September 2020 16:53 CEST
Denmark to return to spot check border control
The Danish border at Rødby in March. Photo:Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix

The change took effect from Thursday, according to a National Police statement.

‘Customised’ (tilpasset in Danish) border control means that periodic and spot-check based control measures will be in place at the borders.

The number and intensity of will be continually “adapted to the expected volume of incoming travellers”, including from countries to which Denmark advises against travel due to Covid-19 infection rates, according to the police statement.

Police will open “all border crossings” in southern Jutland “as soon as possible”, according to the statement. Many of the minor crossings along the German border have remained blocked since the closure of Denmark’s borders at the outset of the country’s coronavirus lockdown in March.

Airports will maintain a police presence for border control in relation to arrivals from Schengen countries. Flight arrivals from countries to which Denmark remains closed due to Covid-19 will still be subject to full border control, the National Police said.

Police expect the scaled-down controls to give a “smoother process and therefore shorter waiting time for arrivals in Denmark”.

Further information and contact details for Denmark's police hotline for people travelling to the country can be found on the Danish Police website.

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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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