A new study, written by the BBC, among others, has caused the British to react. Researchers from Imperial College London have estimated that the death toll in the UK could amount to 260,000 people if not all the funds are used to try to stop the corona virus.

Most would die because the healthcare system couldn't handle the load and couldn't take care of completely other treatable ailments.

From having been restricted with restrictions, whole families should now be quarantined if a person has a cough or fever, pregnancy and those over 70 should preferably stay at home for 12 weeks and the rest of the population is urged to stay away from pubs, cinemas and others. social contexts.

- Some lines of text are about risking hundreds of thousands of lives if you don't push back the infection. Many people expect far more action in the future, says Christoffer Wendick, SVT's European correspondent.

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Anders Tegnell, state epidemiologist at the Public Health Agency, does not think that the British strategy differs much from the Swedish one.

- It is important to reduce the rate of transmission as much as possible. In the UK you are a bit further ahead of the curve and we and the British agree that you should do the right thing at the right time, he says in Aktuellt.

If the immunity among the population becomes so great that the infection stops or if we first get a vaccine he says that you do not know today.

- We do not know when one or the other happens.

See more from SVT's Christoffer Wendick in the clip above