I did notice that Denmark seems intent to drum up a flu vaccine campaign for 2-6 year old children as part and parcel of keeping things open for more at a time when Covid-19 is anything but gone and could be a double vector of pressure upon school and work life. And let's not forget about the healthcare system too. :eek:

I am amazed at the number of sub-7 year old kids in Copenhagen and Skane who are coughing up a lung like crazy while on the way to daycares and elementary schools in the mornings this week. I guess a lot of people have stopped caring about getting tested but also don't seem to be as considerate about what spreading infections at schools can do to others. This is a return to pre-pandemic patterns in the region.

Even our children's school tries to forget about Covid:

I emailed the school to ask them about the wording whether the not in red supposed to be there and they said the wording is correct...

I'm waiting for UM to lift travel advisory so I can travel again. Norway is doing it and so is Sweden.
Souce: SVT

And if the children do or don't get tested, the daycares/preschools/schools may not even ever know if the kids were in fact tested with a proper sample collected by a trained technician?

In my kid's high school in Copenhagen, everyone has to show a negative test result before they start their first lessons just before they got vaccinated, so my kid had to do a test just before class and got a negative response before stepping into the school ground. They had to do it every 72h (twice a week). In the school my other children go to, there's no test requirement even though they are offering it on-site once a week.

If anyone is tested, they would be tested in one of the appointed test centres (since it's free) so it's not just a random dude out of nowhere.

I’m comfortable with that. :)

Seems like Denmark has its act together at least a bit more in this way. The drive-up free Swedish testing being used to test some school children is quite the joke: family pulls up and given a kit to self-administer the swabbing and/or to administer the swabbing of their own children, and it’s all done out of sight of any proctor; and then the “sample” is handed back to the people handing out the self-administered testing kits.

Last year they had DIY antibody test costing 695:- from apoteket. It's crystal clear that the Swedish government doesn't want to bear the cost of testing. It is expensive (think about an antigen test in Sweden costs 395:-) and my kid had to do it twice a week, that's like 790:- per week if we had to pay for it. I think that's the reason why they can't force people to be tested if they are not offering it for free.

I don't think they want to test them in the first place. The position of the government and public health agency on these "solutions" is very clear.

It is absurd to test healthy people and even more absurd to use several days old tests as some way of infection control.

The governments want to stop spending a lot of money on testing. The testing was not just pocket change expense for either country, and both countries have other -- competing -- priorities for the money -- especially at a time when a government is taking it as a given that high (and growing) levels of O12 vaccinations will be sufficient to avoid bad outbreaks during the current school year.

Sweden's approach to testing of "healthy" people -- not exactly sure what "healthy people" means, especially given the context of what goes on with Covid-19 and how it spreads -- actually remains even more absurd than what has gone on with testing in Denmark with regard to school attendance. But let's see if Denmark plays catch-up with a Swedish-like surge in absurd discrimination as has happened with "symptomatic" school children in Sweden during this pandemic. For a benchmark, they should try to compare what happened to (in-person) school absence rates for those with one or two non-European-born parents vs those with two domestic-born parents.

Rapid test centers closing.

It looks like once again I got out just in time!

“København. 9. oktober skal alle de lyntestcentre, som private udbydere står for, være lukket.”

Lyntestcentre lukker - men skal kunne åbne igen med 14 dages varsel
https://www.berlingske.dk/danmark/ly...4-dages-varsel

Apparently, PCR is the only test to show if one is carrying the virus, so the quick test is pretty useless (especially after so many people have been vaccinated).

If you are curious about how the CPH airport is handling mask reinforcement, it appears from my recently departed flight from there that it’s somewhat minimal. The checkin counter area was particularly interesting to me.

The airline staff may well say it’s not their job. Aviator, the contractor for some airlines to attend to various passenger services on the floor and by the flights, isn’t effective either; someone without a mask walked up and asked a question, and at no time was he told to put on a mask.

It was not until I approached this Aviator group af three that one of them reminded the passenger, after one had first informed me it would be impolite to remind him before answering his question while another said they didn’t have the authority to ask for documentation if he claimed to be exempt. In short, the passenger still didn’t put on a mask.

No Covid staff person was around at any time, and it wasn’t until a group of two airport security staff with full authority and intent approached the passenger that he felt compelled to follow policy. During all of this, no staff kept a bag of masks and as such could offer it to the passenger, so he supposedly went to purchase one. I wonder what happened at the gate.

Eh, mask? If you go to www.cph.dk you are met with a film with a passenger who isn't wearing a mask. Shouldn't you just do as the person in the film?

Funny how that video is right above the line “Covid-19 guide”. :D

Tourism in Denmark
 

What's tourism like in Denmark these days? Pleasant? Cafes/restaurants/bars open?

Not sure if this is the appropriate thread to ask this in, but this seems to be the only active Covid-era thread on Denmark. :)