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The chief epidemiologist of the Swedish Public Health Agency, Anders Tegnell, described this Wednesday as "terrible" and avoidable the number of deaths by Covid-19 in this country and regretted the high number of deaths in nursing homes .

Sweden, with a softer strategy, has registered 5,161 deaths, with a rate of 50.30 per 100,000 inhabitants , five times more than Denmark, nine times Finland and ten times Norway, although below Spain, Italy, Belgium and the United Kingdom.

"The death toll in Sweden is appalling and should have been prevented. That has been the worst of the pandemic and the question keeps eating at me: what else could we have done?" Tegnell said on the popular "Summer in P1" program. from Swedish public radio.

More than 90% of the deaths from coronavirus in Sweden are older than 70 years, and half of the total come from asylums, while a quarter received home care. "We believed that our age-segregated society would avoid a situation like that in Italy, where several generations often live together. But it was proven that we were very wrong. The death toll rose dramatically," he said.

Tegnell pointed to the deficiencies in geriatric care, personnel and material , also pointed out by the Red-Green Government, alluding to the policy of the former right-wing Executive.

Like the other Nordic countries, Sweden did not bet on confinement, although it differs from the rest by leaning towards many recommendations and some prohibitions, keeping bars, restaurants and schools open, for example, although with restrictions.

The objective was to reduce the effects of the virus and protect risk groups, following a "classic model" against a pandemic, Tegnell explains, surprised by the turn taken by many countries.

"It was as if the world went crazy and that everything we had discussed seemed forgotten. Country after country closed their borders and their societies completely," he said.

He also stressed that the virus is "unpredictable" and it is difficult to know which methods have the best effect, but isolation can have negative health consequences in the medium and long term.

"I think we still do not have a good answer to what we could have done. There are clear differences between countries, how the deaths are registered, percentage of the elderly population, how we organize geriatric services. Drawing conclusions now can lead to many wrong answers," he said. .

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