SVT News has sent out a survey to all 21 regions in the country. This is their answer.
Västmanland
For some time, infection has been traced around all cases, but not always, and not now.
From the beginning, when the disease cases were few and everyone from the beginning had become infected abroad, everyone who had close contact with the disease cases was identified and they were isolated for 14 days.
When the spread of infection began to take place in the community in mid-March, it became difficult to identify all the different people that the infected met as they moved in the community. Information is provided to relatives / household contacts about the importance of paying attention to symptoms, not going to work, school, preschool, meeting others if symptoms arise. Since mid-March, we in Sweden have not continued to isolate symptom-free contacts.
More extensive infection tracking has taken place throughout the course of hospital care, elderly care homes, other homes, home care services, in other closed environments such as forensic care. In these care environments, the infection tracking also includes a relatively extensive sampling of environmental contacts, to a greater extent.
Limitations in both sampling capacity and human resources mean that the infection detection efforts can currently be focused and prioritized in the cases and environments that are considered most important.
Gavleborg
Infection traces all cases of covid-19 in the region.
Vasterbotten
We are all infected in the region. In order to relieve primary care, we start next week with centralized infection tracking. We have good experience of centralized infection detection from the management of sexually transmitted diseases.
Orebro
Infection tracking is done around all cases. The treating physician is responsible for the transmission of infection. Infection tracking is done on close contacts, staff in health care and care, exposed in health care and care situations.
Gotland
In the Gotland Region we contact everyone who is positive for covid-19 for information and discussion if there are known or suspected cases in the patient's vicinity. Those with symptoms are offered sampling. If infection may have occurred within care or care, infection is tracked on both staff and users / patients.
We have started sampling via our own login at 1177.se, currently including healthcare and care personnel as well as those with socially important activities. The goal is that other people's books on Gotland and visitors can be tested with the same logistics.
Skåne
We trace infection to those patients who are admitted for anything other than covid-19, but who fall ill during the treatment period, are tested and become positive for covid-19 and in the elderly care.
We also detect infections in the collection of cases in care / elderly care.
The infection tracking is carried out in order to map exposed patients / residents and staff, give them information that they are exposed, give them advice and guidelines and then test according to an arrangement that depends on the situation. Infection tracking is thus more than trying patients.
We are currently building a system for centralized infection detection in society.
What is being done today: The treating physician informs and gives precautions to all confirmed cases. These in turn inform their close contacts / household contacts.
Norrbotten
Do you detect all cases of covid-19 in your region? Yes. This has been the case since the turn of the month when we began to try more generally. We have centralized infection tracking around covid-19 cases with people who have been trained to work on this.
Varmland
We are infected and there are special procedures for that. It includes mapping and identification of exposed persons and information to those concerned. Infection tracking does not always mean sampling but can do it.
Cases of care and care are more intensively infected and sampling may be required. The flow and communication have worked well. If it has had an effect on the spread of infection is difficult to say at present.
Dalarna
We decide in each case how far we should carry the infection tracking. So far, we have managed.
Västernorrland
In cases out in the community, treating physicians are responsible for contracting an infection, which generally means that household contacts are asked to pay attention to symptoms. In healthcare and care, extensive infection tracking is carried out by users / patients and staff.
Västra Götaland
According to the Infection Protection Act, it is the treating physician who is responsible for the infection tracking on individual cases, but given the amount, traditional infection detection becomes difficult to manage. Those who are tested in primary care are therefore given written information about, in the case of positivity, contact their close contacts themselves. This is so that they become aware of symptoms and in turn can be tested if they get symptoms. They will or cannot do this themselves, they should say to the primary care, which can then take over.
In principle, no one is quarantined, but the general urge to keep social distance and to stay at home with the slightest symptoms applies.
Primary care is also encouraged, in cases where they suspect an event-triggered spread of infection, for example after a social event such as a party, student celebration or a driving exercise, to contact the infection guard for joint assessment how a possible infection tracking could be made.
In cases in health care, in hospitals or in municipalities, there is in principle always a contagion tracer in which contacts among staff or fellow patients / co-residents are mapped.
Jonkoping
We trace all cases. In particular, the infection tracking means that those who have had contact with an infectious case are identified and informed, so that they can pay attention to symptoms and in that case be tested.
Kronoberg
We have tracked down all the positive patients and that it has worked well.
For our part, the infection wounds mean everything from informing contacts, quarantining people to trying everyone near a case. All positive cases found in Kronoberg have contact with health care professionals, get information about the disease and also information sheets that you can give to relatives. In health care, a more extensive infection detection is carried out.
Uppsala
Infection tracing in identified cases is managed via local routines in cases of users or staff in the end-of-life care and municipal care and care. Otherwise, other covid-19 cases are required to infect themselves on the basis of the rules of conduct and assistance documents that are given in conjunction with being notified of a positive covid test.
Halland
We track infections broadly in elderly care and when infections are found in institutions, departments and so on. As for the general public, which is tested in the broader sampling that takes place via 1177, contacts with symptoms may be contacted for sampling via 1177.
The infection detection we do has worked well. The broader sampling has only been in operation for a week and a half, so we have to evaluate that gradually.
We see that we mainly want to protect the elderly and fragile, hence infection detection in these contexts. The same applies to outbreaks in institutions where the infection can spread quickly and many become ill or where we see staff become at home and business suffer.
Sörmlandsleden
In Sörmland, infection cases trace all cases based on the Infection Protection Act, treating doctors contact the patient who in turn informs household contacts about infection and persons within care and care are also infected.
As far as special housing is concerned, we track infections according to the recommendation that came from the Public Health Authority a few weeks ago. We will also extend it to all seniors in home care / home health care.
For patients being cared for in hospitals, we have infection tracking curators that keep track of the infection, and it has worked very well.
Jämtland Härjedalen
At present, we track infections around all healthcare and care personnel as well as patients and users. In selected cases, infection is also tracked against the public via the infection protection unit. In other cases, infection detection is handled by the doctor who answers positive test answers.
The degree of infection detection to the general public may vary depending on the doctor's ability to transmit infection. At present, the infection protection unit does not have the resources to carry out infection tracking itself to society / the public.
Ostergotland
Basically yes. In special housing for the elderly, this is done in collaboration between the accommodation, the responsible primary care physician and Infectious protection and health care. In the population information is included so that they themselves trace the infection.
Stockholm
According to the Infection Protection Act, it is the treating physician who is responsible for the infection tracking. Initially during the outbreak, the infection protection over this work progressed until the infection was so extensive that we had a social spread.
Each patient who is found to have an ongoing covid-19 infection also gets information about informing people he or she has been in close contact and asking them to be vigilant in symptoms as well as how they should act if it occurs. With the individual responsibility for the identified infection, there will also be recommendations to isolate themselves and more.
Different strategies require different strategies. Initially, the focus was to slow down and delay dissemination around each case as much as possible, but when community dissemination was noted, the focus was primarily shifted towards protecting environments where dissemination has the most serious consequences, that is, in care and care. Probably we had seen even earlier dissemination of the initial strategy to initially track all contacts around the cases.
Blekinge
Did not answer.