The country's public health agency claims its capital Stockholm, where the majority of the cases have been reported, may have already passed the peak of the outbreak.
Earlier this week, Tegnell told CNBC that the agency is"still very concerned about the elderly. It's the group we said we needed to protect," he said, noting that the agency was working with different homes to see how the risk factor could be lowered.
On Tuesday, a study by Sweden's public health agency projected nearly a third of Stockholm will have contracted the virus by early May, claiming the capital may have passed the peak of the outbreak. "The curve for the number of new cases hasn't started to decline yet, either, so we are not there yet," he said.
"My concern is things [the outbreak] are going too fast," Soderberg-Naucler said to Radio Sweden, noting that the country was too slow to react when the virus was first brought to the country by residents who traveled to higher risk areas, including to the Italian Alps and Iran. Current restrictions in Sweden include a ban on gatherings of more than 50 people, while high schools and universities are closed and their courses are being taught online. Residents have been told to avoid unnecessary travel and the government advocates working from home, where possible, and avoiding contact with the elderly.
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