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Stockholm is one of the capitals most affected in Europe by the current corona pandemic. To date, more than 2,600 people have lost their lives as a result of the virus in the Swedish capital, or 113 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants.
Only Madrid is worse with 11,349 deaths, 170 for every 100,000 inhabitants.
In March, it attracted a lot of attention when Swedish WHO advisor and infection control expert Johan Giesecke stated the following about the virus that has spread around the world:
– I think it may be a difficult flu season. I think it is comparable to that.
Between 500 and 2,000 people die from the flu each year in Sweden.
– He cheated on us many times
Now Giesecke admits he was wrong.
– I thought it would spread more like a normal flu, more evenly. We now know that most of those who are infected are probably not that contagious, and it is very difficult to make models for them. We have “super spreaders” and people who do not infect at all, tells SVT.
Tom Britton, a professor of mathematical statistics at Stockholm University, told Svenska Dagbladet that Stockholm could achieve flock immunity from June. After a calm summer, the infection grows again in the Swedish capital.
More than 2,600 people have lost their lives as a result of the virus in Stockholm. Photo: TT / Reuters
– It is a virus that has deceived us many times and will deceive us again. It does not behave as we think. It has a cluster effect, which plays a role in the spread of infection, Giesecke tells SVT.
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– Norway is a deviation in Europe
In the last 24 hours, a total of 174 crown-related deaths have been recorded in Sweden. So far, nearly 7,000 people in the country have died during the pandemic.
Swedish state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell says population density is one possible explanation for Norway emerging from the pandemic better than Sweden.
– Sweden follows the same pattern as many other heavily affected European countries, such as Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, etc. Denmark is in a kind of middle class, whereas especially Norway and Finland are deviations in the European context, says Tegnell according to Expressen.
He points out that Norway has a population density of 14 inhabitants per square kilometer, Finland has 16 and Sweden 24. Tegnell highlights population density as a possible explanation for the fact that Finland and Norway have emerged from the pandemic better than Sweden.
