While other countries see low death rates, nearly 50 people per day still die in Sweden. In an interview with Sweden's Radio Ekot, state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell is now self-critical and says that Sweden should have done more sooner.

- Should we encounter the same disease, with exactly what we know about it today, I think we would land in doing between what Sweden did and what the rest of the world did, he tells Sweden Radio.

SR: Somewhere in between?

- Yes, I think there is potential for improvement in what we have done in Sweden, quite clearly. And it would be good to know more exactly what to shut down to prevent the spread of infection better.

"Don't know what has the best effect"

According to Swedish Radio, it is the high death tolls in Sweden that have got Tegnell to rethink. Exactly what could have been done differently, however, he does not dare to answer yet. He hopes that lessons can be learned from what is happening in other countries now that they are beginning to ease the restrictions.

- Actually, all countries have thrown everything in right away. Sweden is one of the few countries that has worked up a stop more and more. All other countries started with a lot of things at once, and the problem with that is that you don't really know which of the measures you have taken has the best effect. Maybe we know that now when you start taking action off one by one, and then maybe we get some kind of lesson about what else, besides what we did, you could do without driving the total shutdown.