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February 1 | Photo: Stian Lysberg Solum
SKR believes that the responsibility for delaying testing to start should rest with the Public Health Agency and the government. Stock Photography.
Anders Knape, president of Sweden’s municipalities and regions (SKR), is harshly critical of the government and the Public Health Agency and believes they were too slow in asking regions of the country to start crowning tests this spring. He says this in Ekot’s Saturday interview.
– The capacity and the willingness were there to start a fairly broad sampling before us. But our principle has been to follow the recommendations of the Swedish Public Health Agency and the government. We follow what is established at the national level, Anders Knape says on the radio.
Previously, several sectors had criticized that testing for ongoing COVID-19 infections took a long time to start. But SKR does not believe that the responsibility can fall on the municipalities and regions, but believes that the regions were ready and waiting for a clear signal higher up.
– It is likely that if the tests had started earlier, perhaps the monitoring of the infection and the general spread of the infection could also have been limited, says Knape in Saturday’s interview with Ekot.
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