In recent days, the Swedish Public Health Agency has discussed possible changes to the rules for quarantine.

Today, family members must be at home for seven days if someone in the household is tested positive for covid-19.

On Wednesday evening, Minister of Social Affairs Lena Hallengren (S) confirmed that new quarantine rules will be presented tomorrow.

- It is the Public Health Agency that has decided that the quarantine rules need to be as they are.

They will return tomorrow with changed quarantine rules for the very reason that we see that socially important functions are suffering, says Hallengren in SVT's Aktuellt.

Sawn in several places

It is about taking measures that facilitate socially important functions and socially critical functions, Hallengren continues.

- But without speeding up the spread of infection.

Everyone who is at home is not just because they are part of a household community where someone else is sick.

Many of them are sick themselves and can not go to work.

Criticism of the current quarantine rules has been harsh.

Many Swedes are quarantined because someone in the same household is ill, without themselves having any symptoms of covid-19.

At the same time, there will be reports that municipalities and workplaces have major problems keeping the business going and students who cannot get to school.

3,000 police officers gone

On Wednesday, it was also reported that about 3,000 police employees, about ten percent of the workforce, had been away from work due to being ill or in quarantine.

- It is very hard work in some places and many go on their knees in their tasks.

In some places, we are probably on the verge of pain to be able to keep the business up, says Patrik Danielsson, national chief safety representative at the Police Association, to Ekot.

Per Engström, section manager at Noa and commander of the national special event Corona, talks about continuity planning plans that can be activated if absenteeism increases further.

- It can mean staff transfers and re-prioritization of the core business to fulfill the core mission, he tells SVT.