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Denmark residents again required to quarantine on UK entry

The United Kingdom has removed Denmark from its ‘travel corridor’ list of countries for which quarantine requirements are not applied.

Published: 28 September 2020 15:59 CEST
Denmark residents again required to quarantine on UK entry
People arriving at Heathrow Airport. Photo: Henry Nicholls/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix

The change took effect on Saturday September 26th and means that residents of Denmark who travel to England are now required to quarantine for 14 days on arrival.

This means that, after arriving in England, you must travel directly to the place you are staying and not leave until 14 days have passed. The UK terms this form of quarantine self-isolation. Further details of how to isolate can be found on the UK government website.

Although the UK’s coronavirus quarantine rules refer specifically to travel to England, the same rules currently apply in each of the other UK nations. Separate information can be found on the national government websites for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The return of quarantine for Danish arrivals in the UK is not the only current obstacle to travel between the two countries. Denmark’s foreign ministry last week updated its Covid-19 travel guidelines and is now warning against all non-essential travel to the UK.

READ ALSO: Denmark advises against all non-essential travel to UK and Ireland

Denmark has 127.8 cumulative cases of Covid-19 per 100,000 residents for the last 14 days according to figures from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, the EU agency monitoring the data.

Decisions on whether or not to exempt a country from quarantine rest on an “estimate of the proportion of the population that is currently infectious in each country, virus incidence rates, trends in incidence and deaths, transmission status and international epidemic intelligence as well as information on a country’s testing capacity and an assessment of the quality of the data available,” according to the UK government website.

The UK did not have international travel restrictions during the early phase of the pandemic, but on June 8th introduced a mandatory 14-day quarantine for all international arrivals.

From July 10th these were lifted for arrivals from a list of 'exempt' countries which included Denmark.

The Nordic nation was removed from this list on September 26th.

READ ALSO: Passengers warned forms still needed for travelling to the UK from Denmark

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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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