Sweden covid cases down. Swedens daily coronavirus death rate is approaching zero. Swedens coronavirus case rate was this week lower than those of neighbours denmark and norway for the first time since march. You might call it lockdown lite.
More than three months later the coronavirus is blamed for 5420 deaths. In late july swedens 7 day moving average of new cases was about 200 down from a peak of around 1140 in mid june. Polls suggest swedes have started to.
While more people have died of covid 19 per capita in sweden than in many other countries the outbreak of the. But the country has a far higher rate of. By contrast denmark and norway opted for strict quarantines banning large groups and locking down shops and restaurants.
Newly diagnosed covid 19 cases have fallen to one sixth of their number at the peak just two weeks ago. Sweden with a population of 10 million has so far had 4029 officially recorded covid 19 deaths according to data compiled by johns hopkins university. New cases now reported in sweden only from tuesday to friday are running at roughly the rate seen in late march while data from the national health agency showed only 12 of its 120000 tests.
But sweden now has one of the worlds highest covid 19 mortality rates with more deaths per 100000 than the us according to johns hopkins university data. While much of the world has been in various states of coronavirus lock down.