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How short-term residents in Denmark can access Covid-19 vaccination

People who are staying in Denmark temporarily for 30 days or more can be offered Covid-19 vaccination under the Danish health system.

How short-term residents in Denmark can access Covid-19 vaccination
People with temporary stays in Denmark may qualify for coronavirus vaccination. File photo: Tim Kildeborg Jensen/Ritzau Scanpix

Persons who are not permanent residents of the country can access coronavirus vaccination through the national inoculation programme even if they are not registered to the national health system, the Danish Health Authority confirmed in updated guidelines.

If you are staying in Denmark temporarily, you have the right to be vaccinated against Covid-19 even if you are not covered by the country’s national health insurance, which is free to all residents.

READ ALSO: Is life in Denmark impossible without a personal registration number?

Your temporary stay must fulfil two criteria, however: it must have an expected duration of over 30 days and must not have the purpose of obtaining vaccination.

If you think you fulfil these requirements, you should contact the regional health authority in the area in which you are staying once vaccination of your age or target group begins, or from May 17th if your group has already been offered vaccination.

Denmark has prioritised its vaccination programme based on factors including age, vulnerability to the virus and role as an essential carer or healthcare worker.

You can see the most recent English-language version of the vaccination calendar, which includes the various age and target groups here.

There are five regional health authorities in Denmark: Greater Copenhagen (Hovedstaden), Zealand (Sjælland), South Denmark (Syddanmark), Central Jutland (Midtjylland) and North Jutland (Nordjylland).

When you attend a vaccination appointment you should bring ID showing your name and date of birth so staff can check you are part of the relevant age group.

Your vaccination will be registered on a WHO international certificate of vaccination so that it can be used outside of Denmark as proof of vaccination.

Danish citizens who live in other countries can meanwhile return home to receive a Covid-19 vaccination if they are registered on the national healthcare system, according to the updated guidelines. Danes based abroad have not had a guarantee for accessing vaccination in their home country previously.

Not all Danes who live abroad will qualify for vaccination in Denmark, however – many do not retain the yellow health insurance card when they register as having moved abroad.

But there are a number of situations – for example, people who live in the EU or who live abroad and work in Denmark – in which access to the health system in Denmark is retained and a special health insurance card (sygesikringskort) is issued.

People with such registrations will receive notification from health authorities when their target or age group is being offered vaccines, provided they have a NemID, the national system for secure digital post, according to the health authority guidelines. Those without a NemID should contact their relevant regional health authority when vaccination of their age or target group commences.

READ ALSO: When and how can foreign residents get the Covid-19 vaccine in Denmark?

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BUSINESS

The 14 struggling Danish towns given a break from regulation

Deserted town centres and struggling businesses are common traits in 14 Danish towns which will now be exempted from a number of regulations to give them a better chance of revival.

The 14 struggling Danish towns given a break from regulation

The 14 towns will be “set free” from certain rules and regulations in a trial scheme aimed at reviving them after years of decline.

The launch of the scheme was announced by the Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs on Friday, and means that, for example, towns will be permitted to give extra subsidies to business owners who want to rent currently-empty town centre units.

They will also be allowed to cut down protected forest if it has taken the form of scrub and stops the town from feeling congruous; and to rent out empty commercial premises as housing in town centres.

The towns included in the trial are: Assens, Faaborg, Grindsted, Hornslet, Ikast, Nordborg, Nykøbing Sjælland, Odder, Otterup, Rødekro, Rønne, Sakskøbing, Støvring and Vamdrup, after their applications to the trial scheme were accepted.

A political agreement from 2021 paved the way for the new deregulation scheme the towns will hope to benefit from. The scheme is reported to cost the government 130 million kroner.

“I’m very much looking forward to seeing the result. I hope that this will be a part of what puts more life into the centre of medium-sized Danish towns,” the minister for rural districts Louise Schack Elholm said in a statement.

“This is a number of different initiatives, nine in total, that we are making as legal exemptions,” Elholm said.

Some 32 towns initially applied for the scheme.

“It’s incredibly good to see how many municipalities are interested in getting more life into their town centres. The plan was for 10 towns to be selected but there were so many good projects that we agreed on 14 towns,” she said.

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