Denmark is helping those who can’t work due to coronavirus – why isn’t the UK? | Rosie Collington | Opinion | The Guardian

The Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, at a press conference

 

The Danish government will pay workers 75% of their salaries while British employees face financial ruin

At just after 5pm on Monday, my phone rang. I missed the call – I was in one of Copenhagen’s supermarkets, buying groceries and toilet paper and soap and things I still do not need to think twice about getting hold of. Danes aren’t panic-buying, or at least not in a way that resembles anything like the videos I’ve seen on social media from my home country, the UK. When I looked down at my phone, I saw a string of messages from a close family member.

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