– It’s scary – VG

Every fifth inhabitant in the Stockholm region who tests for the coronavirus is infected, according to the region’s latest figures, according to Aftonbladet.

– The second wave is here now, says Johan Styrud in the Stockholm Medical Association to Dagens Nyheter.

Last week, around 42,000 people were tested for covid-19 in the Stockholm region. According to the region, 20.3 per cent of these were positive.

– The proportion of infected is increasing rapidly now. We break records every week both in the number of tests, the proportion of infected and the number of infected, says function manager Claes Ruth at Karolinska University Laboratory to the newspaper.

At the same time, the pressure on the intensive care units in the region is increasing.

– It is clear that this shows a very serious development of infection in Sweden. It is frightening considering that Sweden and Norway had an almost identical infection situation earlier this autumn, says assistant health director Espen Rostrup Nakstad to VG.

Did you see this? Earlier today, the assistant director of the Norwegian Directorate of Health, Espen Nakstad, answered questions about the corona situation and Christmas celebrations:

Extensive spread of infection

In comparison, FHI’s latest figures show that about 2 percent of those tested for covid-19 in Norway are infected.

– When the proportion of positive tests is over 20 per cent in Stockholm, it means that there is a widespread spread of infection in society where there are probably large dark numbers. There is no doubt that Sweden is at full speed into the second wave of infection, says Nakstad

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He says that it is very uncertain how large a proportion of the sick in Sweden are now caught through testing. The test activity per capita is not so much lower in Sweden than in Norway.

– There is every reason to trust these figures, he says.

Nakstad emphasizes that there is nothing to indicate that there have been changes with the actual testing that affect this number.

– We do not know how big the dark numbers are, says Nakstad.