More than 260 cases of infection with the Omicron strain are known in Denmark.

The Danish Public Health Institute announced this on Monday, DPA reports..

There are currently 261 confirmed cases in the country.. The day before it was known about 183 patients.

Denmark confirmed the first cases of infection on November 28, two people who returned from South Africa were sick.

A dozen cases of infection were traced back to an electronic music concert with the participation of about one and a half thousand spectators, held on November 27.

Several hundred people were quarantined in the Norwegian capital due to the Omicron strain. Several large foci of infection found in Oslo. The most massive is the Christmas corporate party, where about a hundred people have become infected with the coronavirus and more than a dozen have already confirmed the Omicron strain.