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Denmark started vaccinating against COVID-19 on 27 December 2020. [130] The vaccination was free of cost and voluntary. [130] It was available to all residents of Denmark and those from abroad staying for more than 30 days in Denmark. [130] By September 2021, Denmark had one of the highest levels of COVID-19 vaccination in the European Union. [131]
5 March – The first death from coronavirus in the UK is confirmed, [9] as the number of cases exceeds 100, with a total of 115 having tested positive. England's Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty, tells MPs that the UK has now moved to the second stage of dealing with COVID-19 – from "containment" to the "delay" phase.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine has resulted in 5,532,777 [1] confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 109,920 [1] deaths. The virus was confirmed to have spread to Ukraine when the country's first case was confirmed to be hospitalized in Chernivtsi Oblast on 3 March 2020, [ 3 ] a man who had travelled from Italy to Romania by plane and then arrived in ...
The United Kingdom reported 39,237 confirmed COVID-19 cases, the highest record in any one day since the start of the pandemic. [170] There were also 744 new deaths, the highest COVID-19 fatalities reported since 29 April. [171] It was also announced that the new 501.V2 variant of coronavirus discovered in South Africa had reached the UK. [172]
By 6 October, due in part to an upsurge in testing, London's infection rate was more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases a day, with 16 boroughs reporting more than 60 new cases per 100,000 people. [17] Two days later, 8 October 2020, the Evening Standard reported that in the week to 4 October 2020 the capital city had recorded 6,723 new COVID-19 ...
As a result, many people believe falsehoods, for example, that wearing masks is dangerous, that a global syndicate planned the virus, or that COVID-19 is a hoax. [176] [177] Facebook announced that it had labeled or deleted 179 million user posts containing COVID-19 misinformation during the first three quarters of 2020. [178]
On 2 April, the Robert Koch Institute, the federal epidemic authority, changed its previous recommendation that only people with symptoms should wear masks to also include people without symptoms. [208] [209] The district of Nordhausen, Thuringia, followed the example of Jena, with effect from 14 April, [210] the city of Erfurt on 22 April. [211]
The CDC estimates that, between February 2020 and September 2021, only 1 in 1.3 COVID-19 deaths were attributed to COVID-19. [2] The true COVID-19 death toll in the United States would therefore be higher than official reports, as modeled by a paper published in The Lancet Regional Health – Americas. [3]