“There are dark clouds on the horizon and I mean mainly the outbreak of the delta variant. It is located in Europe and locally also in Sweden, “said Carlson. He warned that a single dose of vaccine against the Indian mutation did not protect much. It is therefore necessary for people to have a full vaccination.
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In the last month, the country has seen a sharp decline in covid cases and hospitalizations. Almost half of the adult population has received at least one dose of anti-cancer vaccine in the meantime. So far, only 71 cases of the Indian variant have been confirmed in Sweden, but local authorities have intensified tracing because of it. In Britain, about 90 per cent of new cases of coronavirus infection are already attributed to this variant.
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Sweden avoided strict restrictions in the fight against the pandemic and relied on voluntary compliance with hygiene rules, which set it apart from most European countries.
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Sweden’s 10 million people last reported 831 new cases of infection and three deaths on Thursday. Altogether, more than 14,500 infected died in the Nordic country. The comparably populous Czech Republic records more than 30,000 deaths of people with covid.
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India was bothered by the name “Indian variant”
There are many variants of the original SARS-CoV-2 virus in the world. One of them, named by scientists as B.1.617, was discovered in India. It was therefore called the “Indian variant”. This variant still has a specific version of B.1.167.2, which seems to be the most contagious ever.
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