Officially 373 swedes died with corona. The figures can however be somewhat higher.
the Number of swedes who died with coronaviruses, may be higher than previously thought. The official number is 373.
It shows new and revised data from the Swedish health authorities, writes the news agency TT.
the Reason is that there has been a certain backlog in the Swedish publications. It means that the authorities do not have a full overview of the number of coronadøde in the country.
Statsepidemiolog Anders Tegnell, who is in charge of Sweden’s battle against the dreaded virus, do not believe, however, that the figure is much higher.
– I don’t think so. We are now working more systematically with it. So will the backlog also less, he says.
The Swedish death toll presented daily by Folkhälsomyndigheten, which is the Swedish answer on the Board.
According to the Swedish news agency TT has dug into the case, there is now provided a revised death toll, which is a lot higher than the figures which were published.
The revised figures show, for example, that when the authorities the 25. march announced that a total of 42 coronasmittede swedes were dead, so was the real number in fact 97.
the Day after it was reported on a total of 66 dead, but the revised figures have been shown to be 124.
Exactly how much higher than the hitherto known, as the Swedish death toll will be, not yet.
Anders Tegnell recognises that there has been a backlog in the inventory data and establishes that it is a technical issue and is not about, that the authorities wanted to hide something.
– Now then you have to also not create the impression that there is a lot of dead out there, as we have not found. We should probably find them, but sometimes it happened a little slowly, says Tegnell.
There has been much discussion about Anders Tegnells and the Swedish strategy against coronavirusset. Sweden has thus maintained a big openness in the society compared with the rest of Europe, where one in big style has shut down to prevent the spread of infection.
Anders Tegnell cautions, however, that it can be difficult to compare costs across countries. It may be that there are different ways to determine the numbers on the.
According to the international statistics had Sweden on Saturday, 37 dead per million inhabitants. The corresponding figures for Denmark, Norway and Finland are 28, 11 and 5.
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