It is positive that the number of patients in intensive care and infection among the elderly are stable, says the epidemiologist.
Sweden now has a total of 110 deaths caused by coronaviruses. It informs statsepidemiolog Anders Tegnell.
This is an increase from 102 coronarelaterede deaths a day earlier.
One of the victims is a young man in the 30’s from the Jönköping region in Småland in southern Sweden, reports tv station SVT.
It has not been possible to ascertain whether the deceased had an underlying disease.
Around 3700 are confirmed infected with the coronavirus in Sweden. Saturday there was 3447 confirmed smittetilfælde. The figure has fallen from about 400 to 250 confirmed smittetilfælde.
– It, which looks a bit positive, is that we had a fairly big increase among the elderly, but in recent days, the increase stabilized, says Tegnell.
the Number of patients in the intensive treatment was Saturday at 239 and Sunday increased slightly to 255. But seen over some days, this number has been stable, and there are also patients being discharged from intensive, points out epidemiologen.
– The last three-four days we have been on approximately equal number of cases per day. It is a positive development, says Tegnell.
The Swedish national board of health, Folkhälsomyndigheten, is now in the process of testing the possible infected outside of hospitals. It is done by employees of the defense tests the 700 random people in their homes.
the Result of the test is expected to be ready by the end of next week.
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