Sweden in a pandemic strives to protect its economy from the effects of austerity measures and does not impose the quarantine in the country.
WASHINGTON, April 11. /TASS/. the Number of deaths from coronavirus-induced disease in the United States would reach 2 million people, if the authorities chose a model of pandemic for example Sweden, which strives to protect its economy from the effects of austerity measures. This assessment gave on Friday at a press briefing at the White house, U.S. President Donald trump.
“Sweden is different from us,” he said. “They went the other way. Let’s start with the fact that they are very disciplined country,” the President said. “We could go this route, and if we did, then I think we would have had 2 million dead,” said trump. According to him, in the UK initially tried to go this way, but this only exacerbated the situation, and the country lost a lot of time.
Sweden has chosen its own way of dealing with the coronavirus, to the extent possible, involving the preservation of a normal lifestyle. Despite the scale and severity of the pandemic, life in Sweden, unlike many other countries, continues almost as usual.
Since the beginning of the spread of coronavirus, the authorities have chosen the tactics of herd immunity (the resistance to the spread of infection in the community, part of which have to do with this virus personal immunity), guided on the one hand, recommendations physicians, virologists, and on the other a desire to protect the economy from the effects of hard measures such as plant closures to quarantine and temporary layoffs. Residents are encouraged to self-isolation, appealing to their sense of responsibility for themselves and others, but no quarantine in Sweden are not introduced.
the Situation with coronavirus in Sweden and the United States
According to the latest data, the number of cases of infection with the new coronavirus in Sweden reached 9 685 (approximately 96 people infected per 100 thousand people). The number of patients who died after Contracting the novel coronavirus has reached 870 on Friday, said the Swedish Department of health.
According to the Johns Hopkins University, which conducts calculations on the basis of information Federal and local authorities in the US were more than 486 thousand cases of infection with coronavirus (approximately 148 infected per 100 thousand people). Died 18 022 people, recovered 27 612.
the Outbreak caused by a novel coronavirus, the disease was recorded in the end of 2019 in Central China, has spread to most countries of the world and March 11 was recognized by the world health organization pandemic. According to the latest data, the world has infected more than 1.5 million people, recorded more than 90 thousand deaths.
