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Swedish authorities had to announce more than 4,600 new infections in 24 hours with the corona virus on Thursday. Currently, more than 1000 people are hospitalized with Covid 19 disease.
The number has risen rapidly in recent days, last week the value was 60 percent lower. According to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, the rate of hospitalization is not increasing faster in any European country. The increase is stressful for those affected. But it also means a huge brake on the crown’s strategy in Sweden.
“It is going in the wrong direction”
While many countries in Europe imposed a total lockdown on themselves in the spring, critics of this move have cited Sweden as a prime example of how it should be done: no national curfews, almost no closures, and a government that does not issue bans, but reasons. and appeals of responsibility of the population.
But the hope of achieving faster and more extensive immunity against the virus with the “special route” does not appear to be fulfilled. On the contrary. “It is going in the wrong direction,” Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven (63) said on Wednesday of the development of the crown in the country. Around the capital, Stockholm, for example, where a particularly high level of immunity was expected, it is actually well below the expected value.
Prohibitions in the fight against the epidemic.
“Sweden is at risk of more people getting sick, more people dying and the healthcare system being overloaded,” Löfven said. Authorities are sounding alarms due to the rapid increase in cases. The next measure is to ban the sale of alcohol in bars, restaurants and nightclubs after 10 pm And visits to nursing homes are now banned in the two largest cities, Stockholm and Gothenburg.
Sweden’s chief epidemiologist, Anders Tegnell (64), had always stressed that so-called herd immunity was not the explicit goal of the chosen strategy. However, he expected a second wave in Sweden to be much less severe than in other countries. Now he had to declare at a press conference: “The figures are increasing quite strongly. And we will certainly see an increase again in the next week. “(Cat)
