Play the clip to see a timeline of corona testing in Sweden.

January 31

• Sweden gets its first case of covid-19.

A woman in Jönköping is confirmed infected after a visit to the Wuhan area in China.

March 11

• The World Health Organization, WHO, classifies covid-19 as a pandemic.

March 13

• The Swedish Public Health Agency announces that it is concentrating testing on the priority groups of patients in hospitals and those working in healthcare.

March 16

• World Health Organization Secretary General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivers the message "test, test, test - test every suspected case" to all countries of the world.

March 29

• The moderates go out and demand mass testing of covid-19.

A large-scale sampling would help both a pressured healthcare and a shaky economy, the party believes. 

March 31

• The government promises expanded national testing.

The Swedish Public Health Agency is commissioned to increase testing and test more broadly. 

April 5

• The Swedish Public Health Agency states that it wants to be able to test 100,000 people a week within a few weeks.

April 17

• The Swedish Public Health Agency presents the national strategy for expanding the sampling of covid-19.

More will be tested outside care. 

April 20-26

• The estimated capacity for laboratory analysis of covid-19 passes 100,000 tests a week.

Only 26,592 tests are analyzed in the same week.

May 4

• Minister of Social Affairs Lena Hallengren (S) says that Sweden should test 100,000 people a week.

May 8

• The government wants to increase the pace of testing and appoints Harriet Wallberg, professor of physiology and former rector of Karolinska Institutet, as test coordinator.

She will review the problems and bottlenecks in the regions.

May 16

• SVT News reports that just under a third of the 100,000 tests a week are performed.

According to the government's newly appointed test coordinator Harriet Wallberg, this is partly due to problems with getting test results digitally into the care system - and transporting test kits to and from the places where they are to be taken.

June 4

• The government raises an additional SEK 5.9 billion for testing and infection tracing.

Everyone with symptoms should be offered free sampling, and antibody testing should be greatly expanded.

June 15

• Sweden's largest region in terms of inhabitants, Stockholm, begins testing for everyone with suspected infection.

August 31-September 6

• The number of tests completed passes 100,000 a week for the first time.