Sweden suffers highest daily death toll but STILL refuses to shut packed pubs
Thanks for watching my video. If you like my videos, please subscribe to the channel to receive the latest videos Videos can use content-based copyright law contains reasonable use Fair Use (https://www.youtube.com/yt/copyright/). For any copyright, please send me a message. TODAY Sweden suffered their highest daily coronavirus death toll with 185 fatalities as the country refuses to go into lockdown. Sweden is the only country in Europe to not have imposed lockdown measures on its public. ⚠️ Read our coronavirus live blog for the latest news & updates Sweden's figures have fluctuated over the last two weeks with low figures experienced over the weekends including yesterday and Sunday. The country's public health agency had reported only 29 new coronavirus deaths last Sunday and 40 yesterday. Today's increase of 185 deaths has been the largest increase that Sweden has had, bringing the total deaths to 1,765. Yesterday the number of positive cases also increased by 545, a significant increase on yesterday's 392, taking the total number of infections from 14,777 to 15,322. Last Thursday and Friday, Sweden saw a spike of 613 and 676 new cases but brought no new restrictions in. Meanwhile, the UK is believed to have passed its first peak as the death toll rose today by 828 - bringing the total to 17,337 with 129,000 cases. Britain had only 3,279 cases and 177 deaths when Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced cafes, pubs and bars should close on March 20. And on March 24 a full lockdown was imposed as the death toll reached 335 and the total case count was 8,077. With almost double the number of cases compared to when the UK went into lockdown, Sweden continues its markedly different approach to the rest of Europe. The government's move has sparked criticism from some scientists and academics. It has also caused alarm from some of its European neighbours. Sweden is currently tenth in the total figures when you factor in its size - having a population of 10million. The current figures have the nation suffering 175 deaths per million people, compared to the much larger - and locked down - UK's 255 per million from population of 66.5million. Schools, bars and restaurants remain open in Sweden while public gatherings of up to 50 people are still permitted. Officials say that "people in Sweden have a high level of trust in government agencies" meaning that advisory measures have been widely followed. Government ministers have promised a huge increase in testing so that frontline works can be screened for the virus. Health minister Lena Hallengren said: "We are talking about testing and analysis capacity of 50,000, perhaps as many as 100,000, a week." So far Ms Hallengren said that almost 75,000 people have been tested. Sweden's neighbour Denmark is now reopening schools for children aged 11 and under from tomorrow, but other restrictions remain until May 11. PM Mette Frederiksen compared it to walking a tightrope, saying: "If
Thanks for watching my video. If you like my videos, please subscribe to the channel to receive the latest videos Videos can use content-based copyright law contains reasonable use Fair Use (https://www.youtube.com/yt/copyright/). For any copyright, please send me a message. TODAY Sweden suffered their highest daily coronavirus death toll with 185 fatalities as the country refuses to go into lockdown. Sweden is the only country in Europe to not have imposed lockdown measures on its public. ⚠️ Read our coronavirus live blog for the latest news & updates Sweden's figures have fluctuated over the last two weeks with low figures experienced over the weekends including yesterday and Sunday. The country's public health agency had reported only 29 new coronavirus deaths last Sunday and 40 yesterday. Today's increase of 185 deaths has been the largest increase that Sweden has had, bringing the total deaths to 1,765. Yesterday the number of positive cases also increased by 545, a significant increase on yesterday's 392, taking the total number of infections from 14,777 to 15,322. Last Thursday and Friday, Sweden saw a spike of 613 and 676 new cases but brought no new restrictions in. Meanwhile, the UK is believed to have passed its first peak as the death toll rose today by 828 - bringing the total to 17,337 with 129,000 cases. Britain had only 3,279 cases and 177 deaths when Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced cafes, pubs and bars should close on March 20. And on March 24 a full lockdown was imposed as the death toll reached 335 and the total case count was 8,077. With almost double the number of cases compared to when the UK went into lockdown, Sweden continues its markedly different approach to the rest of Europe. The government's move has sparked criticism from some scientists and academics. It has also caused alarm from some of its European neighbours. Sweden is currently tenth in the total figures when you factor in its size - having a population of 10million. The current figures have the nation suffering 175 deaths per million people, compared to the much larger - and locked down - UK's 255 per million from population of 66.5million. Schools, bars and restaurants remain open in Sweden while public gatherings of up to 50 people are still permitted. Officials say that "people in Sweden have a high level of trust in government agencies" meaning that advisory measures have been widely followed. Government ministers have promised a huge increase in testing so that frontline works can be screened for the virus. Health minister Lena Hallengren said: "We are talking about testing and analysis capacity of 50,000, perhaps as many as 100,000, a week." So far Ms Hallengren said that almost 75,000 people have been tested. Sweden's neighbour Denmark is now reopening schools for children aged 11 and under from tomorrow, but other restrictions remain until May 11. PM Mette Frederiksen compared it to walking a tightrope, saying: "If