Covid-19: 6,000 dead in Sweden, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven in quarantine
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven during a press conference on the Covid-19 epidemic in the country, in Stockholm.
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In Sweden, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven announced Thursday that he was in contact and quarantined himself with his wife.
The epidemic is also progressing in the Nordic kingdom, as elsewhere in Europe, and the number of deaths since the start of the epidemic has just exceeded 6,000. But the authorities still refuse to recommend the wearing of the mask, or to consider containment of the population.
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With our correspondent in Stockholm,
Frédéric Faux
The 2nd wave of the coronavirus, which had been slow to arrive in Sweden, now seems to be there.
Thursday, November 5, 90 people were in intensive care, against 56 two weeks ago.
The daily death toll, which was two to three, now hovers between five and seven. The test positivity rate, which has climbed to 10%, has also doubled in the same period.
For Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, who has just quarantined himself after being declared a contact case, the situation is very serious.
In most regions, the threshold for public meetings has been lowered to 50 people, and reinforced recommendations have been put in place: Swedes are ordered to limit their social contacts, to avoid closed places.
Summoned, but not obliged, this is the principle of recommendations.
The only consolation for the authorities: the death rate is not yet at the level of the most affected European countries,
like France,
which on this indicator has just overtaken Sweden.
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