No 12/13 - 2022

The free pneumococcal vaccination offer has been extended

The offer of free vaccination with 23-valent pneumococcal vaccine (PPV23) for certain risk groups has been extended. The new executive order (in Danish) came into force on 28 March 2022 (previously 12 March), but covers vaccinations given as from 1 March 2022. The executive order covers vaccination of the same groups covered by the previous executive order. Read more about the risk groups here (in Danish). The current executive order expires on 31 December 2022.

(Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Prevention)

Extension of the offer of free whooping cough vaccination of pregnant women

The free whooping cough vaccination offer for pregnant women was extended again as per 1 April 2022 and will now remain in force until 31 December 2022. The offer is described in Executive Order on Free Vaccination Against Certain Infectious Diseases (in Danish).

The occurrence of whooping cough among children below two years of age was very low in 2021 owing to the measures implemented to limit transmission of COVID-19, increased immunity in the population due to the 2019/2020 epidemic and, finally, owed to whooping cough vaccination of pregnant women. The latter has contributed to reducing the number of cases among children below three months of age, and therefore Statens Serum Institut still recommends vaccination of pregnant women. Whooping cough vaccination is recommended during every pregnancy, even if the pregnant woman has previously been vaccinated under the free vaccination scheme. Read more about the offer here (in Danish)

(S. Bach Asmussen, P.H. Andersen, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Prevention)

Individually notified diseases 2021

The annual report presents the number of individually notifiable diseases with onset in 2021. The figures may be adjusted due to late notifications and new information. For comparison, we give totals for 2020 and the annual average for the 5-year period 2016-2020, along with the lowest and highest number of annual cases during this period.

No cases were notified of haemorrhagic fever, plague, polio or rabies.

Significant changes in the number of notified cases in 2021 compared with 2020 will be discussed in detail in subsequent annual reports describing each individual disease.

See the 2021 Annual Report (pdf).

(Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Prevention)
30 March 2022