Recall that the only restriction imposed by the government of Sweden because of a pandemic of mers is to reduce the number of participants in public events. March 29th in the country it is forbidden to gather in one place more than 50 people. Prior to this act limiting to five hundred people, and the organizers of mass events such as concerts or plays, in spite of everything, continued to hold, reducing the number of entrance tickets to 499. In nursing homes only on April 1 imposed a ban on visiting relatives. According to the European media, a third of the inhabitants of such institutions are already contracted, primarily due to the fact that staff are not provided with PPE. At the same time Sweden did not secure the borders for countries outside the Schengen area, and there are still ferries, for example, from Poland.
Sweden went “his way” in a pandemic coronavirus
But another round of disappointing data on the number of victims of coronavirus in the country causing more doubt as to the effectiveness of this policy. On Monday evening it was about 7206 infected and 477 deaths from COVID-19. For comparison: in Denmark contracted 4681 people died in 187, and in Norway – 5760 and 74. Yes, and the Swedish health service, usually appreciate, is in a critical situation. Most affected by the coronavirus in the Stockholm region, in hospitals which even before the epidemic began funding problems and layoffs of medical personnel. Because of the shortage of beds in health care institutions, shopping galleries, Älvsjö in Stockholm opened a field hospital.
the Department of homeland security admitted his mistake that did not produce the required information campaign among migrants who do not know Swedish. It became clear after among the infected started appearing with the names of members of the Somali Diaspora, because their culture is a very important tradition to visit the sick. It is believed that via taxi drivers, driving tourists returning from China, Italy, Austria, the virus is spreading rapidly in the areas of compact residence of migrants.