The governmental authorities here in Denmark have decided to attempt a very gradual step that can be seen as a return to some form of normalcy. They base the attempt on the fact that the number of new cases of Covid 19 has declined over the last week, and they feel that they have the capacity to handle any upsurge that might occur.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/110 ... n-denmark/As a first “baby-step” (no pun intended!) they have decided to re-open nursery schools, kindergartens, daycare institutions and school classes up the 5th. grade as of Wednesday after Easter (April 15,) under very stringent conditions.
Conditions that include that the children are to be outdoors as much as possible,; including lessons and when indoors that the social distancing be maintained, that handwashing is enforced on both staff and children every two hours , that the smaller ages be encouraged to form smaller play groups, that the indoors localities be subjected to extra cleaning.
The Department of Health has instructed the local district councils to certify that the institutions live up to the given instructions, and as of today around 80% of them report that they are ready, the remainder will need another week to be up to specs.
As could be expected a number of parents are uneasy about this initiative, that their children are to used as guinea pigs so to say; something that the authorities has vehemently denied.
My own layman’s impression is that they are being used as a test, but that it’s predicated upon the fact that for some reason; reasons that experts the world over are still unclear about, that children when they are infected do not suffer the same drastic symptoms. Also that Denmark with its small size and population and its single; now closed land border to Germany, is easy to isolate.
But it is sure to be an attempt that will be watched eagerly by other countries around the world.