As coronavirus puts Europe under lockdown, Sweden stands apart with its ‘business as usual’ approach – but how long can it last? Heba Habib reports from Stockholm
“We want to urge the government and the authorities to follow the recommendations that exist internationally, which the WHO has agreed with and which most countries follow.”: “I get the feeling that they want to spread the infection to gain herd immunity but it’s pretty cynical because it will be at the price of hundreds, if not thousands of lives.”“We who are adults need to be exactly that: adults. Not spread panic or rumours,” he said in a televised address last weekend.
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