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The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that due to the spread of the epidemic, people, including children 12 years and older, were advised to wear masks in shops, workplaces and schools where there is no ventilation. adequate.
A day after the WHO expanded its recommendations on wearing a mask, Swedish National Medical Director Anders Tegnell stated:
Masks are needed in certain situations. Such a situation has not yet developed in Sweden, in consultation with the regional health authorities.
Prime Minister Stefan Löfven announced on Thursday that there will be distance learning in grammar schools before the end of the year. Also he said:
The WHO is aware that the evidence for the effectiveness of masks is weak. All studies so far consider that keeping your distance is more important than the mask.
Distance learning, introduced at the peak of the second wave of the epidemic, will begin on December 7 and will run until January 6.
Since November, Sweden has tightened restrictions, banning the sale of alcohol after 10 p.m., among other things, and
There are no public events for more than eight people, but there is no quarantine or mandatory use of masks.
On Thursday, 6,485 new infections were reported in Sweden, with a population of 10.3 million. Two weeks earlier, there were 7,240 new patients a day. More than 272,000 people have been infected with the coronavirus since the outbreak began.
In Sweden, the number of deaths from Covid-19 is several times higher than in other Scandinavian countries, but lower than in several European countries that order quarantine.
(Cover image: Stefan Löfven. Photo: Jessica Gow / MTI)
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