While Europe was due to Corona in the Lockdown, drove Sweden to a different strategy.
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The government continued in crisis on recommendations instead of a Lockdown.
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Sweden’s chief epidemiologist relies Anders Tegnell, namely on herd immunity. To solve the Problem in the long term.
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Therefore, the country will now be offered to far-Corona Tests.
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In the corona-crisis Sweden put on a special path. Instead of Lockdown we went almost as far. While Europe was batten down the hatches, Restaurants, shops, and schools had to close, drove the Swedes have a different strategy and not have to put on large-scale Tests. Instead of the infection of small chains to keep it familiar on the principle of herd immunity. Many Swedes should infect. Not to strain also to the economy, is the Lockdown.
Now the government is rowing back. Not because of the many dead rising or Re-Infected. The reason is that the Image of Sweden. The country fears that the exceptionalism could have political and economic consequences. “We put a lot of time and money in the Image of Sweden,” says the Swedish Minister of foreign Affairs of Ann Linde (58) to the newspaper “Dagens Nyheter”. And the Corona could exceptionalism ruin this work.
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Thousands of Swedes want to test
In particular, the tourism is in danger. Many countries advise before a trip to Sweden, since the number of new infections is too high.
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Therefore, Sweden now relies on large-scale Tests. Every Swede with Corona symptoms could be free to try, promises to be the Ministry of health. For this, the equivalent of 597 million Swiss francs to be invested. The demand is high.
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Many Swedes want to test too many at once. How the “world” reported, collapsed in Stockholm on the website to make an appointment for a Test to identify. The same game with the Corona App is “Always Open”. It crashed several times. (jmh)