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“We see that the situation is going in the wrong direction, the situation is very serious,” Prime Minister Stefan Lofven told a news conference. He added that more and more people are being treated in intensive care units and warned that deaths could increase.
According to Lena Hallengren, the country’s health minister, 1 in 5 patients treated in intensive care units is infected with COVID-19.
Due to the increasing number of cases, residents of three other regions of Sweden have been asked to avoid visits to shops, museums, libraries, swimming pools and sports centers, to avoid public transport, to work from home and to avoid meeting with people from other households.
According to Lofven, similar recommendations now apply to 7 out of 10 people in Sweden.
“We have a long and difficult winter ahead of us. We must do everything possible to stop the spread of the infection,” said Johan Carlson, director of the Swedish Public Health Agency.
On Tuesday, 10.3 million. Some 134,500 COVID-19 cases and 5,969 virus-related deaths have been confirmed in a country with a population of
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