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Swedish state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell told Dagens Nyheter on November 18 that the country had 20 deaths a day.
– It is not the case that we suddenly go up from these 20 daily deaths that we have had before to 40-50. That is not the case, Tegnell said.
On the day in question, 49 people died of coronary heart disease in Sweden, reports Expressen.
In the same week, an average of 41.7 people died per day, according to the Swedish newspaper.
Tegnell tells Expressen that it was not his intention to report the wrong number of deaths.
– To call it wrong I think it’s a pretty rough expression. It was not my intention to say wrong or some kind of attempt to deceive someone, he says.
On Thursday, Sweden surpassed 7,000 deaths per crown. In the past 24 hours, there have been 35 crown-related deaths in the country. So far, 7,007 people have died during the pandemic in Sweden.
A total of 272,643 people have been diagnosed with coronary heart disease, 6,485 of them in the last 24 hours, according to figures from the Swedish Public Health Agency.
The Swedish government decided Thursday that the country’s upper secondary schools will be closed for a month. Starting Monday, December 7, there will be distance learning for students.
