In Sweden, the new coronavirus has already been detected in more than a million people, or almost a tenth of the population, according to data released on Thursday.
“Sweden now has one of the largest in Europe [Covid-19] cases per 100,000 inhabitants, “said Karina Tegmark Visel, head of the Swedish Public Health Administration, at a press conference.
However, she noted that the number of new cases of Covid-19 has tended to decline in recent weeks.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 1,002,121 cases of Covid-19 have been reported in Sweden, which means that 9.85% of the population is infected with the new coronavirus, according to official data compiled by the news agency AFP.
The Public Health Board has published a number of potential scenarios, the most likely of which are expected to be very low in mid-May and very low in July and August.
In the fight against the pandemic, Sweden has not introduced a strict quarantine regime, as other European countries have done, but has relied on non-binding recommendations.
However, since November, measures to combat the pandemic have also been gradually stepped up in Sweden, including a ban on the sale of alcohol after 8 pm and a ban on gathering more than eight people.
Since March, cafes, bars and restaurants are only allowed to be open until 20:30.
Despite the raging of the third wave of the new coronavirus in Sweden, the death toll has fallen in recent weeks. The authorities explain this by vaccinating at-risk groups.
156 people have died from Covid-19 in the last seven days. Since the start of the pandemic, a total of 14,158 people have died in Sweden after being infected with the new coronavirus. At European level, this is the average, but it is worse than in Finland, Norway and Denmark.
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