In total in the country, about five thousand people have reported covid infection as an occupational injury.
Of these, almost 1,400 are nurses, something that the magazine Vårdfokus reported on.
Statistics requested by SVT Nyheter Väst from the Swedish Work Environment Authority show that 109 reports have come from Halland.
The vast majority are in the care professions.
Those who have been at the forefront of the fight against infection are also those who have been worst affected.
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In April, the government decided that the state occupational injury insurance would also apply to covid-19, and that this would also apply retroactively.
- But it does not seem to have helped much in practice, states Annelie Söderberg, chief negotiator at Vårdförbundet.
Better compensation
Occupational injury compensation provides better compensation than ordinary sick leave.
Simply put, you lose nothing compared to working.
But the current regulations say that the illness must have existed for at least 180 days - six months - in order to be entitled to such compensation.
The care association wants it to change, and that the compensation applies as soon as someone falls ill with covid-19 due to the job.
Locked position
Negotiations are ongoing between the employers 'organization Sweden's municipalities and regions, SKR, and the Public Employees' Bargaining Council, OFR.
But SKR has said no to changes to the rules.
Something that Annelie Söderberg has a hard time understanding:
- We must see that this is a generally dangerous disease, where the Public Health Agency said that we who can work from home.
In this type of profession, you can not be at home.
Healthcare workers must go straight into the worst zone and work with sick people.
It goes without saying that you have to make sure that they are properly insured then, she says.