Authorities in Denmark on Friday proposed new restrictions to limit the spread of Omicron, including masking up in public places and closing conference centers and entertainment venues, though the government shied away from imposing a full lockdown. “In record time, the rules of the game have again been changed,” Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said at a news conference, with Danish health officials saying Omicron accounts for around 20 percent of all new daily registered infections. Health Minister Magnus Heunicke told journalists that there have been 11,559 Omicron cases registered in Denmark to date, with 2,550 in the last 24 hours. The European country on Friday recorded its highest overall number of new daily infections of COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), logging 11,194 cases. Death and hospitalization rates, however, remain at around half the level of last year’s peak. Danish authorities plan to tighten capacity limits …
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