The director of care: "Going with small steps in the wrong direction"

At the same time, she believes that it is too early to say whether this is an increase in the total.

- It's too short a time to say anything.

You could probably say that we are on a plateau.

Backwards in a larger perspective, it is probably more of a plateau than a safe ascent.

We get to follow it day by day and see where we land, says Jessica Frisk.

According to statistics from the Swedish Intensive Care Registry compiled by SVT Nyheter, Östergötland is one of the hardest hit regions, in terms of the need for intensive care.

Östergötland also belongs to those with the highest number of infections per 100,000 inhabitants.

- What we see now is that IVA has increased slightly and just over ten days ago we had a small peak and it takes about that long before you need IVA, so it was almost expected, says Jessica Frisk.

She also says that we will probably see these fluctuations for a while.

- But on the whole, we hope that we are in the downward phase.