Sweden Coronavirus update with statistics and graphs: total and new cases, deaths per day, mortality and recovery rates, current active cases, recoveries, trends and timeline.
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Debate
Many outside Sweden considered the Swedish policies and the measures taken by its government to fight the pandemic to be different when compared to most other countries. As a result, there was an increase in international news coverage of Sweden. Much of the coverage was neutral, but some of it also contained criticism.[127] Global Times, closely linked to the ruling Communist Party of China, accused Sweden of having capitulated to the virus, calling the country 'a black hole' and called for the international community to condemn Sweden's actions.[128] Some, including Swedish justice minister Morgan Johansson, speculated that the strong criticism may be partly linked to the poor relations between the two countries after China's imprisonment of the Swedish book publisher Gui Minhai.[129][128] Many claimed the Sweden was pursuing a herd immunity strategy,[127] including US president Donald Trump, who during a press briefing told the assembled media that Sweden was 'suffering very greatly' due to what he referred to as 'the herd', and that the US, if done the same, 'would have lost hundreds of thousands more people'.[130][131] Responding partly to Trump's remarks, which she described by using the word ‘misinformation’, Swedish foreign minister Ann Linde said that the ‘so-called Swedish strategy’ was one of many myths about Sweden, and described it as ‘absolutely false’. Linde said that the Swedish goal was no different from most other countries; to save lives, hinder the spread of the virus and make the situation manageable for the health system.[39] Sweden's chief epidemiologist Anders Tegnell, when asked about Trump's remarks, said that in his opinion Sweden was doing relatively well, and were no worse off than New York.[132] Many news stories in international media painted a picture of things being 'business as usual in Sweden, with its citizens ignoring the recommendations to practice social distancing and avoiding unnecessery travel.[127] According to Linde, this was another of the myths in the reporting about Sweden, and she claimed Sweden's combination of recommendations and legally binding measures had so far proven effective.[39]
With Sweden having taken some of the least strict measures of any European country or of countries with a similar number of cases, the response has been both criticised and praised by international media.[133][134][135]
On 14 April, a debate article was sent to Swedish newspapers signed by 22 academics, claiming that the strategy of the Swedish public health agency will lead to "chaos in the healthcare system". Moreover, they claimed that there is no transparency regarding the data used in the models made by the agency. Anders Tegnell from the public health agency responded to the criticism by saying that there is no lack in transparency in the agency's work and that all data is available to be downloaded by the public as an excel-file on their website. [136] Additionally Tegnell stated that the numbers of deaths presented in the published article are wrong, especially regarding the specific number of deaths per day. Another claim in the article saying that Sweden's statistics are closing in on to the ones of Italy was countered by Anders Tegnell saying that unlike Sweden, Italy and many other countries only report on deaths in hospitals, making it hard to compare the numbers of the different countries. [137]
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