Vaccination certificates issued in Denmark may have a shorter validity period in the future, as the vaccine appears to provide less protection against the omicron variant of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Danish public health authority, the National Board of Health, believes that the validity period should be shortened to five months for people who have received two vaccine doses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201d"We now know that the vaccines' protection against omicron is less and therefore we have recommended changing the validity period of the corona passport," says the authority's second-in-command Helene Probst in a press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There currently appears to be support for this in the Swedish Parliament's special epidemic committee, according to Ritzau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Researchers in Denmark have studied almost 12,000 cases of infection with the omicron variant and found that people who have received two doses of the vaccine are at about the same risk of being infected with it as unvaccinated people. The Danish National Board of Health states that the vaccine still provides protection against omicron, but that immunity decreases rapidly, after about two months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A discussion is also underway in Sweden about the criteria for the so-called Covid passport. Minister of Social Affairs Lena Hallengren (S) has told TT that it may be relevant to change the requirements as more people receive a third vaccine dose, but she also added that it is a matter for the Public Health Agency.TT<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Vaccinationsbevis som utf\u00e4rdas i Danmark kan f\u00e5 en kortare giltighetstid fram\u00f6ver, d\u00e5 vaccinen ser ut att ge ett mindre skydd f\u00f6r omikronvarianten av coronaviruset. Den danska folkh\u00e4lsomyndigheten\u00a0Sundhedsstyrelsen anser att giltighetstiden b\u00f6r kortas till fem m\u00e5nader f\u00f6r personer som f\u00e5tt tv\u00e5 vaccindoser. \u201dVi vet nu att vaccinernas skydd mot omikron \u00e4r mindre och d\u00e4rf\u00f6r har vi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[422,3521,1968],"class_list":["post-238920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-report","tag-covid","tag-covidbevis","tag-danska"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n