Whether the government has taken responsibility or not during the corona pandemic has been discussed and criticized in the issue of the Swedish corona strategy.
In Agenda's corona hearing, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven responded to the criticism.
- If you are a prime minister, you of course have the ultimate responsibility for the government's actions.
I can promise that it is a responsibility that is felt every day and especially a lot during a crisis like this.
I think we have decided on 130 ordinances, 160 regulation letters that we wrote about to handle the situation, says Stefan Löfven.
So you take full responsibility for the strategy that Sweden has chosen?
- Yes, of course, I am Prime Minister, Löfven answers.
Partly succeeded
When asked if Sweden should have acted differently to reduce the number of infected and dead as the vaccine came so quickly, the Prime Minister replied that they still managed to slow down the spread of infection to some extent.
- I want to say that we had tough restrictions this spring and it paid off.
We could see how the spread of infection slowed down considerably in the spring, the measures taken were not ordinary measures.
They were hard and limited people's mobility and the activity of society, Stefan Löfven answers.
Flock immunity no strategy
The Swedish Public Health Agency and the government have previously responded to accusations that a flock immunity against the corona virus has been sought.
The allegations were something that the Prime Minister responded to on his own initiative during the hearing.
- We were never, never, in any strategy where we would achieve herd immunity, but we would limit the spread of infection.