copenhagen dec 17 reuters  denmark expects the economy to grow 39 this year up from a forecast of 38 made in august despite a recent surge in coronavirus cases fuelled by the omicron variant its finance ministry said on friday the potential dampening effect from the development in infections is not considered to fundamentally change the growth prospects for the danish economy it said in a statement gross domestic product is expected to grow 28 in 2022 and 21 in 2023 it added denmark has logged almost 3000 omicron infections in the past 24 hours bringing the total number of cases to 9009 and overall daily infections broke another record on thursday as 9999 new ones were logged read more death rates and hospital admissions however are still far below levels seen a year ago reporting by stine jacobsen editing by john stonestreet and jason neely