Denmark, which became the first European country to begin easing its lockdown measures earlier this month, says there has been an uptick in infections but the overall number of Covid-19 infections has continued to fall.
The country has allowed young children to return to school, and hairdressers and other small businesses to reopen.
While its infectious disease agency said the reproduction rate – the number of people to which one infected person will pass the virus – had increased slightly, it was still below one.
“There are no signs that the Covid-19 epidemic is accelerating,” the agency said in a statement.
Denmark has received some praise for its swift action in restricting movement before Covid-19 infections were able to spread across the population.
