Of the municipalities that responded to SVT Småland's survey, only Borgholm, Torsås and Markaryd continue to appeal to the parents who for various reasons are at home during the day to refrain from leaving preschool.

- When this decision came that they appealed to the parents to have the children at home, it felt very positive. You did not have to worry that if I get sick I will leave my colleagues with large groups of children, says Susanne Åhman who is a preschool teacher at Klöverängen's preschool in Ljungby.

For example, Kalmar and Oskarshamn have always allowed all children to come to preschool just as usual. But the vast majority of the municipalities in our area have at times during the spring appealed to the day off to keep their children at home. Ljungby is one of a total of seven municipalities that are now returning to the situation that prevailed before the pandemic.

Do not feel worried that the infection will increase

Although Susanne Åhman welcomed the decision made by her municipality this spring, she currently has no concern that the infection in neither children nor educators will increase when more children are in place.

- I think we have entered into new routines and I think we will be very good at staying home when we have the slightest symptoms. I think both we and our guardians respect this. Then the children have become fantastically good and totally run into this that you wash your hands, she says to SVT Småland.

According to the preschool principal Anne-Lie Johansson, they have noticed the effects of the new routines already in the spring:

- We are not usually as healthy as both we and the children have been in preschool, she says.

Anne-Lie Johansson is the principal at Klöverängen's preschool and she is happy that the municipality plans to welcome all children to the preschool this autumn. Photo: Ida Andersson