Theme: Coronavirus

The COVID-19 crisis has affected the entire world. A new report from the World Health Organization co-developed by researchers from University of Copenhagen suggests that the pandemic has had exceptionally bleak consequences for refugees and migrants.

Young students have not only learned to live with the lockdown during the corona epidemic. A new study shows that they have strengthened close relationships and found new, creative ways to be together online.

Two researchers from the Department of Economics have received a letter of thanks from the Mayor of Rome for their effort saving human lives.

A new research project at the University of Copenhagen and Rigshospitalet will investigate the transmission of COVID-19 among people in the labour market in Denmark. The researchers hope that up to 40,000 people will participate in the project and be tested for antibodies against the disease.

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have used unconventional methods to identify coronavirus transmission chains. An advanced family tree of the virus’ development can provide an exceptionally accurate overview of how the virus was carried into Denmark and its subsequent spread domestically. The researchers hope that their tool will prove useful for contact tracing as new outbreaks flare up locally.

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen are working at full throttle to develop a vaccine against the infectious virus SARS-CoV-2. Now, the researchers have entered into an agreement with the company AGC Biologics on a future production of their vaccine.

The coronavirus pandemic is unlikely to provoke a food crisis according to a food economics expert at the University of Copenhagen. Food supply and demand have hardly changed. And globally, food stockpiles are topped up better than ever.

Experts at the University of Copenhagen have begun using artificial intelligence to create computer models that calculate the risk of a corona patient’s needing intensive care or a ventilator. The new initiative is being conducted in a collaboration with Rigshospitalet and Bispebjerg Hospital.

The government has allocated another DKK 100 million for research and development in the fight against coronavirus, and in this connection three new research projects at the University of Copenhagen are receiving government funding.

Based on a 2019 academic article, Professor Morten Broberg concludes that the Danish COVID-19 actions do not contravene EU free movement rules.

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have received 2.7 million to develop a vaccine against coronavirus disease, Covid-19, which at the moment is spreading worldwide.

Three University of Copenhagen PhD students have developed an interactive app that, among other things, provides an easy to use overview of how the coronavirus pandemic is spreading through Denmark and across the globe. Furthermore, the app attempts to put a figure on the estimated number of infections.

As a direct result of the spread of the Corona virus and the acute health crisis in Denmark and the rest of the world, the Carlsberg Foundation grants DKK 25 million to a new Semper Ardens project to investigate behavior in both the public space and on social media. SODAS researchers Rebecca Adler-Nissen and Sune Lehmann will be part of the research team.

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Statens Serum Institut (SSI) have mapped the different coronaviruses that occur in Danish animals. They emphasise that these viruses are harmless to humans.