Sweden lashes out in WHO over coronavirus listing
Sweden accused the World Health Organization (WHO) in Friday of a "total misinterpretation" of its data, as the UN body listed it among 11 countries facing a resurgence of coronavirus cases.
The WHO had made a "total mistake", said Swedish state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell, whose country has made headlines because of its high death toll after it opted not to introduce strict lockdowns.
"We have a rise in cases because we've begun testing a lot more in Sweden days gone by week," he stated, adding that "the rest of the parameters" showed the quantity of serious cases was falling.
The WHO's European branch on Thursday said Sweden was among 11 countries seeing an "accelerated transmission" that "if kept unchecked will push overall health systems to the brink once more".
The other 10 countries on the list are mostly poorer nations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, which is roofed in the WHO's European region. Some 5,230 have died in Sweden, the world's fifth highest death count - many times greater than its Nordic neighbors, which all imposed much stricter measures to combat the pandemic. "
The amount of admissions to intensive care reaches a very low level and even deaths are needs to decrease," Dr Tegnell said. "We are now down to a level where there aren't more people dying now than during the same weeks in previous years."
According to Sweden's People Health Agency, around 10 coronavirus patients a moment are becoming admitted to intensive care units, weighed against 45-50 a day time in April.During the past month, Sweden has a lot more than doubled its Covid-19 testing and only began offering mass testing to the general public the other day, a delay which has been highly criticized.
