State epidemiologist Anders Tegnell of the Swedish Public Health Agency. (AFP/TT News Agency/Magnus Andersson
“We have an increase in cases because we have begun testing much more in Sweden the past week,” he said, adding that “all the other parameters” showed the number of serious cases was falling. Some 5,230 have died in Sweden, the world’s fifth highest death rate — many times higher than its Nordic neighbours, which all imposed much stricter measures to combat the pandemic.
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