Municipal division in North Jutland is removed and students can return to school

Restaurants must remain closed

It was at a press conference on Thursday 5 November that Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced that North Jutland had to shut down for a while.

The authorities had in the days before found a special mutation of Covid-19, which had been transmitted from mink to humans in North Jutland, and when it was feared that the mutation could pose a risk to the vaccine work that is going on internationally, they chose to introduce particularly tightening restrictions. in seven different municipalities: Hjørring, Frederikshavn, Brønderslev, Læsø, Thisted, Vesthimmerland and Jammerbugt.

The restrictions meant, among other things, that citizens were encouraged not to cross municipal boundaries, and that students in 5.-8. class was sent home – restrictions, which according to TV 2’s information are now being lifted – but also that public transport and restaurants were closed down, that all indoor and outdoor cultural institutions were closed to the public and that the students in higher education in the affected municipalities had to transitions to digital teaching and exam without attendance.

According to TV 2’s sources, the latter restrictions will remain.