Predict horror numbers in January
Technical director of the Statens Serum Institut (SSI) in Denmark, Tyra Grove Krause, will make a dramatic prediction on Wednesday morning.
– January will be the worst month in the whole pandemic, she says TV 2 Denmark.
The fear is that there will be between 500 and 800 entries daily in January, the updated calculations for the department show. Between 9,000 and 45,000 new cases of infection are expected daily in January.
SSI expects the pandemic to culminate in two to three weeks, in mid-January. They justify this with the fact that the omicron variant is on an explosive increase in the country. Grove Krause believes that this increase can not be stopped, only a bit by the restrictions.
TV 2 Denmark also learns that the authorities in the country will hold a press conference on the corona situation later on Wednesday.
Omikron dominates
On Tuesday, it became known that the omicron variant is now the dominant virus variant in Denmark.
The message came at the same time as a new infection record was set in Denmark, according to Minister of Health Magnus Heunicke.
13,558 new Danes were confirmed infected with covid-19 in the last 24 hours on Tuesday. SSI estimates the reproduction rate in Denmark to be 1.2.
In Norway, the authorities and the health trusts are preparing for an increase in infection and more new posts after Christmas.
– What we are most worried about is that many people become infected at the same time and that we get more people who are ill. And more who need health care, says department director at FHI, Line Vold.
– Can be a challenge
Violence shows that even now, before Christmas, we are in a situation where the health service is under pressure from a complex situation due to many hospitalizations, high sickness absence among employees, lack of substitutes and challenges in discharging patients from hospitals.
– With increased omicron infection and more patients and more people needing health care, it can be a challenge.
Although, according to experts, there is little to suggest that the omicron variant gives more serious disease than the delta variant, there is uncertainty as to whether the actual gives milder disease.
– It is uncertainty associated with the mild disease and in case there is much milder. And then it is the case that it takes quite a lot of milder diseases to compensate for the increased dispersibility of omikron.