Sweden’s foreign minister says there’s been a “misunderstanding” in the United States about her country’s Covid-19 policies — which have been distinctly more liberal than the strict lockdowns instituted across much of the rest of Europe and North America
And she noted that inside Sweden, it’s not just the far-right Sweden Democrats who are supporting the government’s approach: all eight parties represented in the Swedish Parliament are in agreement.
“Government advice is not some tip that you follow if you want, it’s seen as something that you should follow,” she explained. By way of example, Linde pointed out that although internal travel in Sweden is not banned, there was a 96 percent decrease in travel to the popular vacation island of Gotland over the Easter weekend holiday.
Linde did express concern for Sweden’s failure to keep the coronavirus out of nursing homes, one of the few settings where the country has implemented strict social distancing rules, including forbidding family visits. “There are far too many deaths in the nursing homes,” Linde conceded. “We don’t know why.”
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