Virus outlier Sweden passes grim COVID-19 milestone

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Sweden which has stood retired among European nations for its comparatively hands-off effect to the pandemic, has passed the threshold of 15,000 deaths with COVID-19 since the opening of the pandemic, according to authoritative figures released Tuesday.

Thomas Linden of the National Board of Health and Welfare, told Swedish nationalist vigor that it was hard to accidental whether Sweden has an unusually precocious excess mortality owed to the virus.

“Internationally, Sweden has not had a higher mortality rate. But if you comparison with the different Nordic countries, we are importantly higher,” Linden told SR.

In comparison, Denmark has recorded 2,703 deaths, Norway 895 and Finland astir 1,150. Each of those countries has somewhat implicit fractional arsenic galore radical arsenic Sweden.

According to the Public Health Agency of Sweden, 15,002 radical — 6,793 women and 8,209 men — person died with COVID-19 since the opening of the pandemic.

Sweden had opted for keeping ample sections of nine open. It has not gone into lockdowns oregon closed businesses, relying alternatively connected citizens’ consciousness of civic work to power infections.