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There have never been so many covid patients admitted to hospitals in Skåne as now, Expressen wrote on Monday night.
We are talking about a total of 276 patients, of which 33 are in the intensive care unit. That’s more than three times more than during the peak of infection this spring, according to the newspaper.
Ann-Louise Levau, an assistant nurse at the intensive care unit in Lund and the municipality’s chief safety representative, is experiencing great pressure in the workplace, where colleagues are lacking due to both the common cold and COVID-19.
– We are fighting
During the past week, the region reported more than 7,000 new cases of infection. Particularly large numbers have been reported over the weekend: there were 1,600 positive samples on Friday, while there were 2,500 on Saturday. At the same time, “only” 210 new cases of infection were detected on Monday, according to Sydsvenskan.
At present, it is not clear whether the high infection rates are an actual peak of infection or whether they are due to delays in laboratory reporting.
Levau links last week’s spike in infection to congestion in stores on Black Friday. He claims that many of his colleagues in the intensive care unit are cursed because people do not follow the restrictions.
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– It feels like people are literally shitting each other. It is a very selfish way of thinking and he cares little. They may think that those with mild symptoms are not contagious, he tells Expressen.
– We fight and do everything possible for our patients to recover and return home to their loved ones. We know that the peak will come at Christmas and New Years and that we will be forced to work even more then than today, he continues.
– Clear increase
On Friday, the Helsingborg municipal administration issued an SMS warning to a third of the population. The municipality is among the six municipalities in the country with the highest spread of infection and has the most new cases in the Skåne region.
The municipality’s website reports a “dramatic increase in covid-19.”
– An effort is now required to curb the spread of covid-19 in society, writes the municipality, which encourages regular hand washing, refraining from social gatherings, avoiding places where congestion can occur, and staying home if feels bad.
– We encourage everyone to take the recommendations very seriously in the coming weeks, continues the municipality.
An analysis of movement patterns in the municipality points to a change since November 23.
– Maybe it’s the Christmas shopping that breaks through. But then came black week, black Friday, payday, and holiday shopping. As of November 25, a clear increase is seen, municipality analyst Henrik Persson tells Sydvenskan.
As Dagbladet mentioned after Black Friday, both Sydsvenskan, Svenska Dagbladet, and Aftonbladet could report that many went shopping on November 27.
The center had to close
In Skåne, residents were encouraged to stay away from shopping centers, but there was congestion in several centers in Malmö. One center had to temporarily close due to congestion.
There were also a lot of people in Stockholm. Norrmalm police posted a photo of the crowd at Drottninggatan on Instagram, where many people could be seen shopping. A police officer told Svenska Dagbladet that he did not believe it was possible for people to hang out in such crowds during a pandemic.
– Today we patrol downtown. There are more people than we expected, police wrote on Instagram.
Nurse Charlotte was surprised when she passed a shopping center in Gothenburg. She told Aftonbladet that there were a lot of people and that there was no possibility of maintaining an adequate distance.
– Help, I thought. It was very sad to see that there were so many people, he told the newspaper.
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Among the worst in Europe
As Dagbladet reported on Monday night, updated figures from the European Infection Control Agency (ECDC) show that the country has recorded 698 new cases of infection per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days. Therefore, only six countries are more affected than those on the ECDC list.
At present, only Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Lithuania, Slovenia, Croatia and Hungary are registered with a greater spread of the infection than Sweden on the ECDC list.
Sweden, on the other hand, is nowhere near topping the list of new deaths from covid-19 in Europe. While Slovenia and Bulgaria have recorded 28.6 and 27.4 deaths per crown per 100,000 inhabitants respectively in the last 14 days, Sweden has only recorded 4.6.
On Thursday of last week, Sweden surpassed 7,000 deaths per crown.
