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Airline SAS halves number of departures from Copenhagen

Scandinavian airline SAS is to cut the number of flights operating from Copenhagen Airport from 44 to 22.

Airline SAS halves number of departures from Copenhagen
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Having already significantly scaled back flights due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the airline will reduce from the 44 daily departures from the Danish capital which were offered during the Christmas period, industry media Check-in reports.

The company’s acting head of media relations Alexandra Lindgren Kaoukji cited travel restrictions caused by the coronavirus.

“The new restrictions naturally mean a further reduction in demand for travel to and from Denmark,” Kaoukji told Check-in.

Denmark currently requires all non-resident foreign nationals entering the country to provide a negative Covid-19 test and a valid reason for travel. Airline passengers must document a negative Covid-19 test taken within the last 24 hours at the time their flight departs.

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Current SAS services out of Copenhagen include flights to Aarhus, Aalborg and 20 other destinations including 15 in Europe, with the remainder in the United States and China.

“We now hope that the decisions that have been made to stop the spread of the virus, along with the introduction of vaccines, will soon enable us to see the light at the end of the tunnel and return to normal as soon as possible,” Kaoukji also said.

The head of media relations was unable to give a timeline for a return to more frequent services.

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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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