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Sweden will impose, as of November 1, new restrictions on the operation of restaurants and nightlife spaces due to the increase in new infections due to the new coronavirus in that country, it was announced this Thursday.
Commenting on the new measures, Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said that “the party is over”, at a time when the country adds 109,000 cases of contagion and 5,929 deaths since the start of the health crisis caused by the covid -19.
With an incidence of 101.7 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days, according to data from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Sweden recorded 1,206 new infections on Wednesday.
According to the director of the Swedish Public Health Agency, Johan Carlson, the new restrictions for the restaurant sector impose a maximum limit of eight people per table.
The Swedish Prime Minister stressed that the new restrictions also apply to nightlife venues (bars, discos), and stressed that these establishments have not followed the recommended standards to cope with the pandemic.
Swedish Interior Minister Mikael Damberg clarified that nightclubs can only accommodate a maximum of 50 people simultaneously, warning that fines will be imposed on establishments that do not respect the rules.
Public events can reach a capacity of up to 300 people, but only involve a seated public and if the physical distance meter rule is guaranteed.
Currently, the capacity for public events is 50 people.
Considered by some as controversial, Sweden adopted a strategy against the new coronavirus classified as mild compared to other Nordic and European countries (it maintained, for example, schools, gardens, restaurants, bars and other services), registering a mortality rate. much higher than its neighboring countries.
Until now, the Swedish authorities have favored calls for individual responsibility rather than imposing restrictions and have limited themselves to “recommending” certain precautions.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 1.1 million deaths and more than 41.3 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
Europe is the third region in the world most affected by the pandemic, with a total of 8.3 million people infected. In terms of deaths, it is the second region with the most victims, having already crossed the barrier of 260 thousand deaths.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus (SARS-Cov-2) detected in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
