Big surge in cases in Sweden. They report 2,214 new cases and 74 new deaths.
They were reporting around 500 - 700 cases per day up until now.
Someone should be shouting Stop over there.
Here is the story, seems like they have left out some deaths, not sure if it was deliberate or just a mistake.
From the Guardian,
Sweden passes France for Covid-19 deaths per capita
The number of deaths per capita from the coronavirus outbreak in
Sweden has now surpassed that of
France, as the country also recorded a bumper rise in infections due to the release of previously withheld statistics from a Stockholm test lab.
According to the latest update from the public health agency, 74 more people have died from Covid-19 in Sweden, pushing the total death toll to 4,542. With 450 Covid-19 deaths per 1m people, it means Sweden now has a higher coronavirus death rate than France, which has recorded 443 deaths from the virus per 1m population, according to tallies kept on the
Worldometers website.
Sweden’s unwelcome rise up the coronavirus rankings on Wednesday came after its chief epidemiologist, Anders Tegnell, who is credited with masterminding his country’s light touch outbreak strategy, admitted there was “quite obviously a potential for improvement in what we have done”.
Asked in an interview on Swedish radio whether too many people in
Sweden had died, he replied: “Yes, absolutely,” adding that the country would “have to consider in the future whether there was a way of preventing” such a high toll.
“If we were to encounter the same disease again knowing exactly what we know about it today, I think we would settle on doing something in between what Sweden did and what the rest of the world has done,” Tegnell said. It would be “good to know exactly what to shut down to curb the spread of infection better”, he added.
Also on Wednesday, a further 2,214 confirmed cases of coronavirus were announced – the highest daily increase in cases yet in the country. According to
Stockholm regional officials, the big daily rise in cases came because a laboratory that had hitherto only reported positive tests to patients publicly released data on 1,385 positive tests for the first time.
Sweden has reported 40,803 cases since the coronavirus outbreak began.
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