Lind: "Great readiness to receive an audience"

The pressure from the sports movement to bring about a reintroduction of audiences to a limited extent is increasing.

The absence of paying visitors at sporting events means that associations bleed financially. At present, it is football - where more than a third of Swedish men and women have been harvested - that suffers the most and where critical voices have been most heard.

- It can be a little frustrating when you see how certain activities are allowed to be very open while we are not allowed to have anyone at all in our stands. Not everyone understands that, said Swedish elite football's general secretary Mats Enquist to TT a couple of weeks ago.

A breakthrough in the issue may be underway as the Government's Minister of Sports and Culture Amanda Lind meets this week with a large part of the country's special sports federation to discuss how to deal with the pandemic situation and how the public can gradually return in an infection-proof manner. .

- We are now working to be able to give a message, but we must also remember that we are in the most serious pandemic in modern times. Before the summer, it was not time to let go of these restrictions. It was assessed by the Public Health Agency and it was also the government's assessment, says Amanda Lind in TV4's Nyhetsmorgon, according to Fotbollskanalen.

The discussions are largely about how public events, which fall under the Public Order Act, can be arranged despite the fact that gatherings of more than 50 people are still not allowed at present.

- Now we need to look at how we can think ahead and I had as recently as yesterday (Tuesday) the dialogue with sports representatives and cultural representatives, and there is a great deal of preparedness to be able to let in and receive audiences in an infectious way, says Amanda Lind.

Lind has previously promised new information for cultural and sports events within the next few weeks.