Greenland will suspend air and sea travel from its capital Nuuk to counter a resurgence of Covid-19 on the huge Arctic island, after months when no cases were reported at all, local media reported on Tuesday.
The autonomous Danish territory managed to contain the epidemic early on by imposing strict measures such as quarantine, but has recorded an increase in cases in recent weeks.
Of a total 49 recorded cases since the beginning of the pandemic, nine are currently active in the territory which has some 56,000 inhabitants.
The decision to suspend air travel was taken after five cases were detected since Monday, Greenland’s chief medical officer Henrik Hansen told broadcaster KNR.
The DSB app, which can be used to pay for rail and bus journeys across Denmark, has been updated so that users can use it to pay for accompanying passengers.
Denmark’s national rail operator DSB has announced an update of its app to enable users to buy multiple tickets on the same journey.
DSB’s app, launched in April this year, allows you to pay for your journey and to check in on buses, local trains or metros. Over two and a half million journeys have since been paid for using the app, the company said in a statement on Wednesday.
To use the DSB app, you can use the “check in” function in the app and then “check out” when your journey is complete. Your fare will then be paid using the payment card you link to the app.
This will now also apply when you add additional passengers before checking, using the new function.
If you forget to check out at the end of your trip, the DSB app does this automatically after 15 minutes, preventing you from paying an incorrect fare.
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“There has been great demand from customers to be able to travel together using the Check-in function. Now you only need one phone to take care of tickets for everyone on trains, buses, metro, and light rail,” DSB’s customer manager Charlotte Kjærulff said in the statement.
As much as 77 percent of online ticket purchases with DSB are now completed on the DSB app, according to the company.
“We are continuously developing our app with the aim of putting everything the customer needs for their journey in one place.We want it to be easy for customers to find the right ticket for their journey,” Kjærulff said.
Many transport users in Denmark still use a physical Rejsekort when checking in and out of public transportation. The Rejsekort is also being replaced by an app, which was fully rolled out earlier this month. The Rejsekort app is currently awaiting the results of a probe by the national data protection agency.
Both the DSB and Rejsekort apps are likely to increase convenience for many public transport passengers who have previously been reliant on having credit on the physical card and remembering to bring it with them.
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