Following the news that coronavirus-related deaths in Sweden surpassed 1,000 on April 14 — making the country's fatality rate 10 times as high as Finland's, four times as high as Norway's, and twice as high as Denmark's, Bloomberg calculated — 22 Swedish academics penned a letter to a Stockholm newspaper calling upon the government to radically change its approach.
A general view of a field hospital being prepared at the Ostra Sjukhuset hospital area in Gothenburg on March 24, 2020.The World Health Organization has also urged Sweden to take stricter actions to curb the spread of the coronavirus. A volunteer prepares a food boxes to be distributed to people isolated because of the coronavirus at City Mission in Stockholm on April 7, 2020.Despite criticism, Tegnell believes an increase in infections in the short term will avoid the possibility of a wave of new infections that could happen if the country imposed, then lifted, strict lockdown measures, he told the Associated Press.
Gudrun Rosnes, an employee at Stockholm City Theater, makes personal protective equipment for hospital and care homes on April 8, 2020.
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Didn’t their cases just explode?
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