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There are many questions about the variants of the virus, the rules of oral hygiene and the priorities of the vaccines.
Here, state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell answers Aftonbladet’s questions.
– If you’ve been to the UK and have covid-19, you’ll find out if you have the British version, Tegnell says.
How to map new mutations in Sweden?
– We continuously check a number of viruses and check their genetic material to see if it is of some other type than what we normally have in Sweden. There is also a great international collaboration to see if the variants we find in Sweden are similar to those found elsewhere. This is what you continually do, says Anders Tegnell.
How do you know if you have the British or South African variant?
– There is no possibility that you, as an individual, know what type you have. Right now you can say that if you’ve been to the UK in the past week, you should definitely go and test yourself to see if you have this. But you cannot feel it yourself in any way.
– If you have been to the UK and have a covid-19 virus, you will check if you belong to the British tribe or not, so you will find out, says Tegnell.
It is proposed to introduce an oral protection recommendation on January 7. Among other things, public transport is affected. How will it work in concrete terms?
– We will leave with a general advice, so it is not really a requirement but a recommendation. If you now have to travel by public transport during these times, make sure you have a mouth guard so you can wear it during the trip.
Photo: Henrik Montgomery / TT / TT NEWS AGENCY
Anders Tegnell during Tuesday’s digital press conference.
Who will be responsible for the mouth guards?
– We have indicated that it is mainly the travelers themselves who are in charge of taking it with them. In case you do not have it or have the opportunity to do so, we have indicated that then it is important that there is an opportunity for those who operate the traffic to provide in that case.
How will you decide who is next in line for vaccination?
– Phase 1 is clearly aimed at those who live in geriatric residences and have home care, they are those who have the highest risk of becoming ill and dying from this disease. The next phase is older than 70 years because age is the greatest risk factor. The risk of being affected for those who are in the risk group and the general public is not much of a difference at this time.
Are there any suggestions on what vaccine priorities will look like when it’s time for the general public? Vaccination priorities: are there any new offers?
– It depends a lot on how the availability of vaccines will be at that time. It looks like we will have a pretty big asset and then I think they will just offer everyone the opposite in the simplest way possible. But with some regional differences.
– So we know that if there is a shortage of vaccines, it is mainly people over 50 who have a greater risk, so you imagine that you are going towards some type of underprioritization and at least you start with those over 50 years old. But there we are not yet, but we will see how it all unfolds, says Anders Tegnell
How are risk groups informed? There is no “registry of risk groups”. How do you find out that you have access to the vaccine as a risk group, if you still do not have continuous contact with healthcare?
– If you belong to a risk group, you probably have continuous contact with a doctor. They are the types of diseases we are talking about which means that, in principle, you automatically have contact with a doctor.
Severe overweight has been flagged as a risk group, isn’t it safe for you to have close contact with doctors just because you’re overweight?
– No, of course there are some who do not have it, but there will also be information for everyone in general about who the risk groups are. For that type of risk group, you can definitely identify whether or not you belong to it and get in touch.
Prime Minister Stefan Löfven’s visit to the gallery has attracted great attention. Anders Tegnell does not want to comment on the suitability of Löfven’s visit to watchmaking.
To Aftonbladet’s question about how the Christmas trade in general has worked, the state epidemiologist answers the following:
– We do not have good data in this regard so it is difficult to make an assessment. We have contact with the Swedish trade and it has dropped a bit, but how much we will see in a couple of weeks.
Photo: Amir Nabizadeh / TT / TT NEWS AGENCY
Overcrowding on the subway platform.
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