[ciceryadam]

If you check the graph in my first comment, you can see that the 9.4% increase happened onward from week 42, so it was the second wave that hit the country hard. By that time, the country gave up on contact tracing. Plus in the second wave , the lockdown was enforced only for people not tested by mass antigen testing.

You can compare Denmark and Slovakia (similar population size) for 2 different approaches to the 2nd wave, with 2 completely different outcomes. Denmark as a whole has as many people in ICUs as Slovakia has in one hospital.