Here, thousands have been exempted from corona passports – but more are worried about cheating – Dagsavisen

Since Denmark reintroduced requirements for corona passports in November, at least 5,900 people have been exempted from corona passports. It shows a survey actual program detector has done among the country’s municipalities. Also Extra Bladet has discussed the matter.

The free passport itself is a physical document that can be used in the same way as a corona passport, for example to go to a restaurant or work. With that, you do not need to have been vaccinated or recently tested negative for covid-19.

The employers’ association Dansk Industri (DI) and Kommunernes Landsforening (KL), corresponding to Norwegian KS, now believe that it has become too easy to get an exemption for corona passports, and say that the number who have been granted a free pass raises concerns about abuse in municipalities and private workplaces.

KL believes there are gaps in the legislation, and asks the government to come on the field to tighten.

[ Den danske regjeringen vil innføre krav om koronapass ]

Must sign self-declaration

The National Board of Health has a long list of which diseases or disorders give a person the right to be exempted from corona passports. Both physical and mental disorders are on the list, including a number of cancers and anxiety. The target group is people who for various reasons should not be allowed to take a test, and with that both testing and corona pass are excluded.

You do not need a doctor’s certificate to get a free passport, but you must show up at the public office. There you have to sign a declaration of faith and law, ie a statement in which you promise that you have provided correct information, that for medical, physical or mental reasons you can not take a coronal test. You must not write what is the reason why you ask for a free pass when you sign the self-declaration.

It is not possible to document how many of the more than 5,900 who may have received a free pass without there really being a basis for it, according to Detektor. Nevertheless, Søren Dupont Dall in Dansk Industri says that they have received between 50 and 100 inquiries from frustrated companies due to free passes. DI and KL will be required to have a doctor’s certificate in order to be exempted from coronary passports.

[ Stadig flere land bruker koronapass – har det effekt? ]

– Do not understand

One person who shows up and tells that she has been given a free pass without any physical or mental reasons for it, is Vibeke. She believes test requirements are “insane”.

– I can not understand why I should let them stuff something in my nose time and time again, just so that I will be allowed to live a fairly ordinary life, Vibeke says.

She only shows up with first names, because she may have done something that violates the law. Vibeke says that she has not had any problems using the free pass, and says that she has been to “a sea of” both cafes, restaurants and cinemas.

– I have lived my life as I usually do, says Vibeke.

At the same time, Denmark, like a number of other countries, has had a huge increase in the number of registered corona cases recently. In recent days, the country has been at the peak of infection in Europe, with 3647 infected per 100,000 inhabitants.

On 3 January, more than 700 corona patients were hospitalized in Denmark, the highest number in one year. However, Tyra Grove Krause, director of the Statens Serum Institut (SSI), believes that Danes can live as normal again within two months.

– I think so. It will continue for the next two months, and then I hope that the infection will start to decrease and that we get our normal lives back, she says to Danish TV 2.

Almost 79 percent of Danes are fully vaccinated, shows figures from SSI.

[ Flere innfører vaksineplikt. Hva vil det bety, og virker det? ]

I dialog

In November, the Danish government and Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced that they would introduce requirements for corona passes, including at indoor restaurants, nightclubs and contexts where people gather closely. To get a corona passport, one must either have been vaccinated, have recently had covid-19 or be able to show a negative test taken a short time in advance.

The government and all the parties in the Folketing, with the exception of the smaller party Nye Borgerlige, stood together behind the agreement which ensures that someone can apply for exemptions from tests and corona passports. Nye Borgerlige was also one of two parties that at the end of November voted against a law that allows employers to require a valid vaccine certificate at work.

As long as covid-19 has been declared a socially critical illness, the employer can demand to see an employee’s corona passport.

Detector has been in contact with the various parties for answers to the criticism from KL and DI. Neither the Unity List nor the Socialist People’s Party (SF) will make further demands, while Per Larsen in the Conservatives says it should be possible for companies to demand documentation from a doctor in addition to the corona passport.

The ruling Social Democratic Party has not commented on the matter. The Danish Ministry of Health writes in an e-mail that they are in dialogue with, among others, KL about the scheme to assess the possibility of adjusting the model.

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