In Iceland they were quarantined and their contacts were traced. They also introduced a system in which emergency medical care where those infected were called by nurses and doctors every day.
Should Sweden have chosen the same strategy?
Jan Albert, who is a professor of infection prevention at the Karolinska Institute, believes that in Sweden it should be understood that the risk was greater than it was judged.
- But I also think that with the relatively large population that we have, we probably would have gotten the infection fairly soon anyway, says Jan Albert in Aktuellt.
And Albert does not think that Sweden should switch to Iceland's strategy, at least not yet.
- Today we have a clear declining curve in Sweden. At best, and hopefully, the curve continues downward and then maybe one can move to a strategy like Iceland, with infection tracking, when the infection is much more limited than it has been.
Iceland's state epidemiologist thinks they will be able to hold on to this, what do you think?
- I wish them good luck but I think it will take a long time before we have a vaccine and then they will need to be very active for a long time to come, but hopefully they will be able to.
In Iceland, more than 1,800 people have been found to be corona infected and only 10 people have died.