Denmark has become the country with the highest rate of COVID-19 infection in the world at 1,612 cases per 100,000 people.

On Monday, the country of 5.8 million people reported a new record number of daily infections and now has the highest incidence of COVID-19 in the world, according to statistics bureau Our World in Data. New daily infections in Denmark have surpassed 15,000 for the first time, and health authorities recorded 16,164 infections in 24 hours. 16,164 positive results were obtained from 130,686 PCR tests, which gives a very high infection rate of 12.4 percent.

Since last week, the omicron variant has been the dominant form of COVID-19 in Denmark. According to statistics provided by AFP based on information from official sources, the five countries with the highest incidence rates in the last seven days in the world were European. At the same time, Denmark is among the countries that conduct the most tests per inhabitant.

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