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INFECTION INCREASED: Images of Stockholm in April. The region is now entering the second wave of infection. Photo: Pontus Orre / VG
Every fifth coronatest in the Stockholm region is positive. This indicates a widespread spread of the infection in society, according to deputy health director Espen Rostrup Nakstad.
Every fifth resident in the Stockholm region who tests for the coronavirus is infected, the latest figures from the region show, according to Aftonbladet.
– The second wave is already here, says Johan Styrud at the Stockholm Medical Association to Dagens Nyheter.
Last week, around 42,000 people were tested for COVID-19 in the Stockholm region. According to the region, 20.3% of these were positive.
– The proportion of infected is increasing rapidly now. We break records every week both in the number of tests, the proportion of infected and the number of infected, says function manager Claes Ruth at the Karolinska University Laboratory to the newspaper.
At the same time, pressure is increasing on intensive care units in the region.
– It is clear that this shows a very serious development of infection in Sweden. It’s scary considering that Sweden and Norway had a nearly identical infection situation earlier this fall, says VG’s assistant health director Espen Rostrup Nakstad.
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Wide spread of infection
By comparison, the latest FHI figures show that around 2 percent of those tested for covid-19 in Norway are infected.
– When the proportion of positive tests exceeds 20 percent in Stockholm, it means that there is a general spread of the infection in society, where there are probably a large number of dark people. There is no doubt that Sweden is full throttle into the second wave of infection, says Nakstad.
SECOND WAVE: Early this fall, the infection situation in Norway and Sweden was almost identical. Now Sweden is heading into the second wave. Photo: Line Møller
He says it is highly uncertain what proportion of the sick in Sweden are detected by testing. Per capita testing activity is not much lower in Sweden than in Norway.
– There are many reasons to trust these figures, he says.
Nakstad emphasizes that there is nothing to indicate that there have been changes with the actual tests that affect this number.
– We don’t know how big the dark numbers are, says Nakstad.
