In an interview in SVT's Agenda, Stefan Löfven emphasizes that despite figures showing that the spread of infection in the country remains relatively high, the number of intensive care patients and deaths is decreasing. He also thinks that it is too early to draw conclusions about the crisis when we are still in it.
- He doesn't really answer anything concrete. He does not seem to want to be recognized by the Swedish strategy of accepting a high degree of spread of infection, which sets us apart from other countries in Europe, says Jimmie Åkesson about the interview.
"Giant failure"Löfven also points to deficiencies in the elderly care as the decisive factor for the spread of infection among the elderly is high in the country. Åkesson, for his part, believes that the spread of the virus in society plays a bigger role:
- The crack question in the discussion that has arisen in recent weeks is that we allowed a wide spread of infection in Sweden. Many experts believe that it is not possible to do so while protecting risk groups.
Åkesson believes that the starting points in the Swedish strategy have been precisely to accept a wide spread of infection as long as care has managed to take care of the cases that come in, and at the same time protect risk groups.
- And you have not succeeded in protecting at-risk groups, but half of the deaths among the elderly have been in the care of the elderly and it is a gigantic failure we cannot accept.
KD: "Löfven ducks all questions about responsibility"Even the Christian Democrats' Ebba Busch, in an e-mail to SVT, criticizes the government's handling of the pandemic:
“Stefan Löfven chose with open eyes a corona strategy with few restrictions and a relatively high degree of spread of infection. The basis for such a strategy is that you can protect the risk groups, but to have a chance to succeed it would have required a very active political leadership from the national level. This has been a fatal political failure, but Stefan Löfven ducks all questions of responsibility. "