Public Health Agency: "Sweden needs to prepare for the corona virus"

Finland has received its first confirmed case of the corona virus. Sweden should thus also prepare for the infection to come here. That is what the Public Health Authority thinks.

- We also need to prepare ourselves for the occasional case in Sweden, says Karin Tegmark-Wisell at the Public Health Authority.

All Ikea department stores in China are closed

More than 1,700 new corona cases have been registered in China over the past 24 hours, which means that 7,711 people have been affected by the virus. Now the Swedish furniture giant Ikea announces that it is temporarily closing all its stores in China.

Swede to postpone athletics World Cup in China: "A shock"

One of Sweden's big jumps at the indoor Nanjing World Cup in March had been the long jump runner Thobias Montler, 23. Now the championship is canceled due to the corona virus.

- Damn. Obviously it will be a shock, but at the same time it is nice that you do not test if they feel it is a risk, says Montler.