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Danish public sector employees to work from home due to increase in Covid-19 cases

Municipalities in both Copenhagen and Odense will ask staff to work from home in an effort reduce the spread of coronavirus.

Published: 8 September 2020 14:23 CEST
Danish public sector employees to work from home due to increase in Covid-19 cases
File photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix

Copenhagen Municipality has asked heads of department to send administrative staff to work from home, the city said.

The decision comes after health authorities and Minister of Health Magnus Heunicke on Monday asked businesses in 18 municipalities in the greater Copenhagen area, as well in Odense, to consider working from home.

The two areas are currently seeing an increase in Covid-19 infections and local restrictions are set to take effect there from Wednesday.

READ ALSO: Denmark announces new restrictions in Copenhagen and Odense as coronavirus cases increase

Another municipality in the greater Copenhagen area, Ballerup, has said that around half of its staff would be working from home for the next two weeks.

Staff from non-public facing sections of Ballerup’s municipal administration are like to be asked to work remotely.

Odense Municipality responded to the government request Monday by saying it would send employees home.

The municipality’s city director Stefan Birkebjerg Andersen said that around 2,000 municipal employees would be affected.

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TRANSPORT

Copenhagen Metro lines reopen after two-week closure

Lines M3 and M4 of the Copenhagen Metro are back in service having reopened on Sunday, one day ahead of schedule.

Published: 26 February 2024 07:51 CET
Copenhagen Metro lines reopen after two-week closure

The two lines had been closed so that the Metro can run test operations before opening five new stations on the M4 line this summer.

The tests, which began on February 10th, are now done and the lines were running again as of Sunday evening, a day ahead of the original planned reopening on Monday February 26th.

“We are very pleased to be able to welcome our passengers on to our two lines M3 and M4,” head of operations with the Metro Søren Boysen said.

“The whole test procedure exceeded all expectations and went faster than expected and we can therefore get a head start on our reopening now,” he said.

Time set aside for potential repeat tests was not needed in the event, allowing the test closures to be completed ahead of time.

“Several of our many tests went better than expected and we have therefore not used all the time we needed for extra tests,” Boysen said.

The two lines serve around one million passengers every week, according to the Metro company.

READ ALSO: Copenhagen city government greenlights extension to Metro line

The new stops on the M4 line will be located south of central Copenhagen in the Valby and Sydhavn areas. The will have the names Haveholmen, Enghave Brygge, Sluseholmen, Mozarts Plads and København Syd (Copenhagen South).

The M3 and M4 lines, the newer sections of the Metro, opened in 2019 and 2020 respectively.

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