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Denmark eases assembly ban as pandemic subsides

Published : 08 Jul 2020, 17:51

Updated : 08 Jul 2020, 18:25

DF News Desk

People prepare to abseil down the wall of a former fortress on the Youth Island, near Copenhagen, Denmark, on Aug. 24, 2019. Ungdomsoen, or Youth Island, has just opened in the Sound Strait between Danish capital city of Copenhagen and the Swedish city of Malmo.Photo Xinhua.

The right to assembly was raised to 100 people in Denmark Wednesday, according to a parliament agreement reached on June 8, reported Xinhua.

The decision, which was made as the COVID-19 pandemic began to subside in the country, would allow 200 people to assembly on Aug. 8 if there were no second wave of infections, said Lars Ostergaard, a professor at Aarhus University to Danish news agency Ritzau.

Originally, the government introduced a 10-person limit in mid-March to curb the spread of COVID-19 as large sections of the society began to close down.

The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Denmark stands at 12,888 and the death count has increased by three since last Wednesday to 609, according to the daily update from the Statens Serum Institut Wednesday.