- I do not have very many details about the case itself.
The person was ill a few weeks ago and has now recovered.
We are conducting extended infection tracking around this case and sent additional samples for the sequencing, but it will take some time before we get those answers, says Christian Blomkvist, infection control doctor in the Kronoberg region during the region's press conference on Friday.
The variant is believed to have an increased ability to spread compared to other variants, and the Public Health Agency announced on Thursday that it is now seeing an increasing number of cases, mainly in Blekinge and Värmland.
There, stricter infection control measures have been introduced regionally.
The text is updated.