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In Sweden, a case of the South African mutation of the new coronavirus has been confirmed. This was announced by the Public Health Agency at the press conference on Saturday. The case is linked to a trip to South Africa.
– Great efforts are being made to continue finding these cases and we recommend continuing to travel from the UK and South Africa to come and get tested as soon as possible, stay home and in isolation for seven days and test once more a day. five, and this also applies to others in the home, state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell said Saturday.
The recommendations are the same that went into effect on December 21 for arrivals from the UK and were expanded to also affect South African travelers on Saturday, according to the Public Health Agency press conference.
DN has spoken to one person who came to Stockholm from South Africa on New Years Eve and who has already contacted 1177 to find out how he should act. So he received no special recommendations.
The person says that, therefore, he was surprised by what he said at the press conference and that he then called 1177 again, to book a test according to the recommendations that were announced. But again, the message was that sampling or some other rules of conduct didn’t apply to her. 1177 suggested that I call Krisinformation.se, which gave the same answer. There are no special recommendations for those who have been to South Africa.
– I lived it as if everyone I spoke to was like a question mark, as if they had never heard of this, the person tells DN.
In addition to the statement of Anders Tegnell At the press conference, information on what is arriving from South Africa is available on the website of the Public Health Agency, but the text on the recommendations can be accessed through a link still called Saturday night “Recommendations for those who travel or have traveled from the UK to Sweden”.
A press release from the Public Health Agency on Saturday, titled “A total of eleven cases of the British variant of the virus and one of the South African,” reads in the fourth paragraph:
The Public Health Agency urges all participants who have stayed in the UK or South Africa to stay home for at least seven days, avoid contact with other people as much as possible, and get tested as soon as possible afterwards. of arrival with follow-up tests five days after arrival. The rest of the family should also stay home waiting for the test results. “
On the Stockholm region website, there are several tabs with information on when a covid-19 test may be relevant, including ‘sampling for those who have recently been to the UK’, but on Saturday night there is nothing about entering from South Africa. In the Always Open app, where Stockholm locals must reserve their sample, there is no alternative for those who have been to South Africa. The person DN has been in contact with does not meet any of the requirements to book a trial in the app.
– I would like to book this test and do what I can, but then I have to lie and say that I have symptoms and that is very strange, he says.
