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An employee of the Federal State Center for Special Risk Rescue Operations of Russia Emergency Situations disinfects a hall of Leningradsky railway station in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, June 24, 2021. Coronavirus infections continue to soar in Russia, with the highest reported new cases and further deaths since late January. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
The Latest: Hawaii to drop rules for vaccinated travelers

By The Associated Press Jun. 24, 2021 06:26 AM EDT

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and UC Davis Assistant Nurse Manager Claudio Alvarado select the first 15 Californians to be awarded $50,000 for doing their part in getting vaccinated against COVID-19 at the California Lottery Headquarters on Friday, June 4, 2021, in Sacramento, Calif. It was the first in a series of drawings for $16.5 million in prize money aimed at encouraging Californians to get their shots ahead of June 15, when the state plans to lift almost all virus-related restrictions. (Paul Kitagaki Jr./The Sacramento Bee via AP)
The Latest: Mexico to use US vaccine doses at border

By The Associated Press Jun. 04, 2021 02:24 AM EDT

Danes present digital coronavirus passport for travel abroad

May. 28, 2021 07:32 AM EDT
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Danish government on Friday presented its digital coronavirus passport enabling people to travel abroad or, in Denmark, go to...

Faeza Satouf looks at a photo of her graduation day on her phone during an interview in Nivaa, Denmark, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. The 25-year-old Syrian refugee had fled the civil war with her family in an all-too-familiar journey across the sea to Europe, where they finally arrived in Denmark and were granted asylum in 2015. Yet six later years, she has been told she has to go back — alone, and soon. (AP Photo/David Keyton)
Denmark tells some Syrians to leave, separating families

By David Keyton Apr. 23, 2021 02:19 AM EDT

Fans to be allowed into matches in Copenhagen at Euro 2020

Mar. 25, 2021 07:59 AM EDT
COPENHAGEN (AP) — At least 11,000 fans will be allowed into soccer matches staged in Copenhagen during this year's European Championship, the Danish government...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, holds a "Green Pass," for citizens vaccinated against COVID-19,  as he visits a fitness gym with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, right, and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, to observe how the pass is used, in Modi'in, Israel, Thursday, March 4, 2021. Frederiksen and Kurz are on a short visit to Israel for to pursue the possibilities for closer cooperation on COVID-19 and vaccines. (Avigail Uzi/Pool via AP)
Israel, Denmark and Austria join forces against COVID-19

By Laurie Kellman Mar. 04, 2021 01:26 PM EST

Dutch riot police enclose a group of demonstrators who refused to leave after police broke up a demonstration of hundreds of people who protested against the coronavirus lockdown and curfew on Museum Square in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021. The group was eventually allowed to leave. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
The Latest: First US J&J vaccine doses shipping Sunday night

By The Associated Press Feb. 28, 2021 05:54 AM EST

Workers unload boxes of the Astra Zeneca vaccine at the Belgrade Airport, Serbia, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. 150,000 doses of Astra Zeneca vaccines were delivered to Serbia. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
The Latest: Biden to mark 500,000 lives lost with ceremony

By The Associated Press Feb. 21, 2021 04:54 AM EST

FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2021, file photo, Houston Police officers Kenneth Bigger, center, and Aaron Day, center right, hand out blankets to people under the elevated portion of I-45 in Houston as a winter weather continues to hit the area. Making decisions about risks — large or small — in the pandemic era is fraught enough. But the storms and outages ravaging Texas and other states have added a whole new layer to the process. (Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via AP, File)
The Latest: Texas reports 227 more confirmed COVID-19 deaths

By The Associated Press Feb. 20, 2021 03:30 AM EST

Third grade students arrive at Tved School, in Svendborg, on the island of Funen, Denmark, Monday, Feb. 8, 2021. Students in the lower grades returned to the classrooms after schools were closed in an effort to control the spread of coronavirus. Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Monday it was uncertain when older students would return to school. (Tim Kildeborg Jensen/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)
In Denmark, some school classes resume amid lockdown easing

Feb. 08, 2021 06:50 AM EST

Acting Minister of Finance Morten Boedskov faces the media at the Ministry of Finance in Copenhagen, Wednesday Feb. 3, 2021. (Martin Sylvest / Ritzau via AP)
Denmark to develop digital passport proving vaccinations

Jan M. Olsen Feb. 03, 2021 05:02 AM EST

A medical worker holding a Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and a syringe during mass vaccination starts in Vienna, Austria, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. Authorities started to vaccinate the most vulnerable people in a coordinated effort. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
Pfizer temporarily reduces European deliveries of vaccine

By Jan M. Olsen Jan. 15, 2021 09:15 AM EST

FILE - Thousands of killed mink are buried at Jydske Dragonregiment's training ground at Noerre Felding near Holstebro in Denmark on Nov. 12 2020. Millions of Coronavirus infected minks were destroyed in Denmark and cases of the disease were found elsewhere in the world. (Morten Stricker/NTB via AP)
Culled mink resurface after burial in Denmark

By Jan M. Olsen Nov. 26, 2020 06:47 AM EST

FILE - In this file photo dated Friday Nov. 6, 2020, mink look out from a pen at a farm near Naestved, Denmark.  Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has appointed Thursday Nov. 19, 2020, a new agriculture minister, after Mogens Jensen resigned after the government ordered the culling of all Danish mink because of the coronavirus, but without having the necessary legislation in place first.(Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix FILE via AP)
Danish PM taps new minister after mink culling fiasco

Nov. 19, 2020 09:22 AM EST

A member of the cleansing team works as Danish health authorities, assisted by members of the Danish Armed Forces dispose of dead mink in a military area near Holstebro, Denmark, Monday, Nov. 9 2020.  Danish mink will be buried in mass graves on military land as the country's incinerators and rendering plants struggle to keep up, the Danish environmental and health authorities announced. Denmark will cull about 17 million mink after a mutated form of coronavirus that can spread to humans was found on mink farms. (Morten Stricker/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)
Danish government gets backing for plan to cull minks

By Jan M. Olsen Nov. 17, 2020 04:42 AM EST

Heavy machinery is used by members of Danish health authorities, assisted by members of the Danish Armed Forces in disposing of dead mink in a military area near Holstebro, Denmark, Monday, Nov. 9 2020.  Danish mink will be buried in mass graves on military land as the country's incinerators and rendering plants struggle to keep up, the Danish environmental and health authorities announced. Denmark will cull about 17 million mink after a mutated form of coronavirus that can spread to humans was found on mink farms. (Morten Stricker/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)
Denmark wants to ban mink farming until end 2021

By Jan M. Olsen Nov. 10, 2020 11:36 AM EST

Killed mink are buried at Karup Military Airport in Jutland, Denmark, Sunday, Nov. 8 2020. To prevent infection from spreading from the animals, the animals are encapsulated in layers of calcium. More than a quarter million Danes have gone into lockdown in a northern region of the country where a mutated variation of the coronavirus has infected minks being farmed for their fur, leading to an order to kill millions of the animals. (Bo Amstrup /Ritzau Scanpix via AP)
UK bans non-resident arrivals from Denmark over mink fears

Nov. 08, 2020 12:39 PM EST

FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 9, 2020 file photo, minks in a farm in Gjoel in North Jutland, Denmark. Denmark’s prime minister says the government wants to cull all minks in Danish farms, to minimize the risk of them re-transmitting the new coronavirus to humans. She said Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020, a report from a government agency that maps the coronavirus in Denmark has shown a mutation in the virus found in 12 people in the northern part of the country who got infected by minks.  (Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix via AP, File)
North Denmark in lockdown over mutated virus in mink farms

By Jan M. Olsen Nov. 06, 2020 04:58 AM EST

An almost empty Frolunda Torg shopping center, in Gothenburg, Sweden, Friday Oct. 30, 2020.  The Public Health Agency of Sweden has tightened their recommendations, restricting public freedoms for five regions in Sweden due to an increasing number of cases of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Bjorn Larsson Rosvall / TT via AP)
Swedish PM self-isolates as nation passes grim threshold

By Jan M. Olsen Nov. 05, 2020 06:54 AM EST

FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 9, 2020 file photo, minks in a farm in Gjoel in North Jutland, Denmark. Denmark’s prime minister says the government wants to cull all minks in Danish farms, to minimize the risk of them re-transmitting the new coronavirus to humans. She said Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020, a report from a government agency that maps the coronavirus in Denmark has shown a mutation in the virus found in 12 people in the northern part of the country who got infected by minks.  (Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix via AP, File)
Denmark wants to cull 15 million minks over COVID fears

Nov. 04, 2020 11:17 AM EST

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