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More than 270,000 cases have been confirmed and more than 27,000 have died from the coronavirus in Spain, one of the most affected countries in Europe.
Also from Spain comes a new study with tens of thousands of participants showing that just over five percent of the population has antibodies against the virus. The results are preliminary, writes Reuters.
– This is not good news for Sweden. Spain is one of the most affected countries in the world. The fact that they are in such low proportions of estimated people who have gone through the infection is not good news for us, says Tove Fall, an epidemiologist at Uppsala University, in SVT’s “Current”.
– We hope that a large proportion has gone through the infection in, for example, Stockholm. This tells us that we have come this far.
“Quite high proportion that has died”
Tove Fall says the study also indicates that a “fairly high proportion” has died from the virus in Spain.
Hostess Cecilia Gralde asks the epidemiologist how high she thinks the antibodies are in Sweden:
– A survey in Belgium showed around 6 percent, here it was 5 percent. Maybe somewhere over there or lower because we have fewer deaths.
