SWEDEN –  Restrictions imposed on the kingdom had been chafing with the populous as many believe that Sweden should not be considered a threat in the current epidemic of the COVID-19 Pandemic. The World Health Organization had been accused of working with the wrong data considering that though Sweden had kept pretty loose COVID-19 restrictions, the rate of admission of intensive care and hospitalization is actually fairly low and actually the deaths in the country match the previous years. 

Dr.Tegnell, stated that the numbers projected went up once testing was increased which brings to mind a question in the Swedish Health Community’s eyes. The  direct proportion of infected shouldn’t be related to how many the test stated positive but rather how many are in the intensive care units and the number of deaths within the infected months. It is a known fact that COVID-19, as contracted, kills fairly quickly which points to an obvious flaw in the testing process as many deaths were not COVID-19 related.

The European union has chosen to close its borders to Sweden as it is opening up to the rest of the world due to the lack of strict COVID-19 protocol. The Regional Director Hanz Henri Kluge stated that 11 countries within the EU had to be slowed down from entering borders into the EU and Schengen border-free zones due to a resurgence of COVID-19 infections that could push the countries back into starting all over again with their lockdowns.

On July 1st, The EU plans to loosen is borders and only under strict measures, allow for travel within the union but had still kept their borders closed to countries with high number of COVID-19 cases to keep the state of equilibrium they currently have attained with reduced COVID-19 numbers. Many Nordic countries, on the word of the World Health Organization, have been skeptical about letting in Swedes which has brought such an outcry from the Swedish people.

The other countries feel the numbers, however, have their purpose in that around 5,230 deaths in a population of 10 million seems high in terms of mortality rates with outbreaks of 1,610 infections close to daily.

Denmark has agreed to let Swedes in on the grounds that they can prove they can have  just 20 infections every 100,000 people per week, when the project number of infections per week is around 155, says WHO.