Swedes Told to Avoid Shops, Museums After Record Covid Cases (1)

Swedes living in their country’s capital have been told to avoid shops, restaurants and museums to fight back the spread of Covid-19, as a record spike in cases threatens to overwhelm the health-care system.

“We are entering the part of the curve with very high contagion levels and may potentially reach the limits of what the health-care system and what society can handle,” Anders Tegnell, Sweden’s state epidemiologist and the architect of the country’s Covid strategy, said at a briefing in Stockholm on Thursday.

Sweden has so far avoided a lockdown, based on Tegnell’s theory that people have to ...