Despite the recommendations: Several Stockholm schools remain closed

- I don't understand this. I was in attendance with all the municipal leaders last night and we agreed that there was no reason to keep schools closed. However, the free schools live their own lives, he says, and continues:

- You could possibly close schools if you have a widespread dissemination in society, as has been possible in Italy, but we do not have that in Sweden today.

According to Anders Tegnell, there are clear routines for how schools should act should a child be infected.

- If a child gets sick, you start an infection tracking, contact those who met the child and then keep them at home. There is currently no reason to keep the schools closed as it simply means that the children are lagging behind in their education and that parents cannot go to work, which can affect others if, for example, they work in the elderly care.

During Thursday, the Knowledge School in Nacka and the Manila School in Stockholm were closed due to coronary infection. Today, the Viktor Rydberg Schools Foundation also confirms that both the upper secondary school and the secondary school in Djursholm are kept closed during the day.

Even Danderyds high school with 1,200 students is the only municipal school in the Stockholm region closed today. According to President Fredrik Nordlander, this is not due to limiting the spread of infection.

- We have not found any cases of infection at the school, however, there is a widespread rumor spread among pupils and parents when schools are almost immediately closed. We remain closed today, but only today, to be able to plan how we will handle the situation, he says.

However, during the morning, Danderyds high school sent a message to all parents that a student's parents had been confirmed infected. However, according to the municipality's communications manager Jan-Erik Alenbrand, the school is not closed due to medical reasons.

- The measure taken, following recommendations from the Stockholm region and the Swedish Infection Protection Agency, is intended to facilitate the school management to plan operations ahead and assist the infection detection.