Coronavirus: King of Sweden admits strategy against Covid-19 has failed

King Carlos Gustavo of Sweden regretted the country ‘failed’ in its response to the coronavirus pandemic, in its most explicit allusion to a health emergency that almost leaves 7,900 dead in the country, with data worse than those of its northern neighbors.

“I think we failed. We have a huge death toll and it’s terrible.”, expressed the monarch in a documentary which will soon be broadcast on public television. And admitted the “Sadness and frustration” that exists in “many families”, as well as in companies going through difficult times.

The deterioration of data in recent weeks it is wreaking havoc on the image of the government’s principal epidemiologist, Anders Tegnell, whose level of support has dropped by 13 points, up to 59% according to an Ipsos poll for the newspaper News of the day.

This Thursday, the Ministry of Health brought to 7,893 have died from the coronavirus and 357,466 have been infected, in a country with a total population of around 10 million.

Early December, the government had changed its policy of voluntary compliance into Covid-19 prevention measures, to organize the closure of public establishments, universities, number of people gathered, ban on the sale of alcohol every night, among others.

Kings were isolated in the first wave of the pandemic in one of their palaces and one of her sons was recently quarantined after testing positive. On the possibility of becoming infected, Carlos Gustavo, 74, He said that “it seems possible, it is getting closer and closer. It’s not something you want. “

A commission appointed by the Swedish government has now concluded that the authorities did not protect the elderly in nursing homes and other establishments with long-term income, which ultimately led to a large number of deaths.

In any case, Tegnell continues to defend the measures adopted, which are much less restrictive than those of neighboring countries, and he asserts that one cannot yet say that Sweden has failed. “More or less all countries are grappling with this,” he said. Bloomberg.