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Sweden registers 9,779 new COVID-19 cases, 268 deaths

Reuters
Posted at Jan 19 10:54 PM

STOCKHOLM - Sweden, whose unorthodox pandemic strategy has placed it in the global spotlight, registered 9,779 new coronavirus cases since Friday, health agency statistics showed on Tuesday.   Read more »

Swedish COVID-19 cases cross 500,000 mark as hospitals near limit

Reuters
Posted at Jan 12 11:56 PM

Sweden has registered 17,395 new coronavirus cases since Friday, taking the total above 500,000 cases since the start of the pandemic, as hospitals struggled to cope with a rampant second wave of the virus, Health Agency statistics showed on Tuesday.   Read more »

Film festival in Sweden offers to isolate enthusiast on remote island

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 10 04:36 PM

Are you willing to stay on a remote island in Sweden alone for seven days to watch festival films and write reviews? Read more »

Lockdown-shy Sweden passes pandemic law

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 09 04:42 AM

Sweden's parliament on Friday passed a pandemic law giving the government new powers to curb the spread of Covid-19 in a country that has controversially relied on mostly non-coercive measures to fight the virus. Read more »

Lockdown-shy Sweden passes pandemic law

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 09 04:07 AM

Sweden's parliament on Friday passed a pandemic law giving the government new powers to curb the spread of Covid-19 in a country that has controversially relied on mostly non-coercive measures to fight the virus. Read more »

Sweden registers 12,536 new COVID-19 cases, 277 deaths

Reuters
Posted at Jan 07 10:34 PM

STOCKHOLM - Sweden registered 12,536 new coronavirus cases since Jan. 5, Health Agency statistics showed on Thursday. Read more »

Sweden registers 32,369 new COVID-19 cases, 258 deaths

Reuters
Posted at Jan 05 11:20 PM

Sweden has registered 32,369 new coronavirus cases since its latest update on Dec. 30, health agency statistics showed on Tuesday. Read more »

Ericsson worried about Chinese retaliation after Huawei ban

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 05 12:10 AM

The head of Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson, Bjorn Ekholm, is worried about Chinese reprisals after Sweden banned Huawei from taking part in the rollout of 5G networks, he said Monday. Read more »

Sweden recommends masks for rush hour, as COVID-19 deaths hit record

Reuters
Posted at Dec 30 11:32 PM

STOCKHOLM - Sweden on Wednesday took steps to increase measures against the novel coronavirus, recommending commuters wear masks on public transport during rush hour as the country announced a record death toll from COVID-19.   Read more »

Sweden stands by virus strategy despite tighter measures

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 22 10:48 PM

Sweden is continuing to pursue the same strategy against the Covid-19 pandemic, despite a recent slew of stricter measures, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven insisted on Tuesday.   Read more »

Sweden limits public gatherings to 8 people to fight pandemic

Reuters
Posted at Nov 16 11:18 PM

STOCKHOLM - Adherence to the Swedish coronavirus recommendations has come down since the spring and public gatherings will be limited to eight people, down from a previous upper limit of 300, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said on Monday.  Read more »

COVID-19 cases surge in Sweden as testing struggles to keep up

Reuters
Posted at Nov 10 10:18 PM

Sweden, whose soft-touch virus approach has placed it in the global spotlight, recorded new 15,779 COVID-19 cases on Tuesday as a resurgent pandemic stretched testing to the limit in many hard-hit and densely populated regions.   Read more »

Sweden registers new record-high 1,870 COVID-19 cases in a day

Reuters
Posted at Oct 27 10:49 PM

Sweden, whose light-touch pandemic strategy has gained global attention, registered 1,870 new coronavirus cases on October 23, the highest since the start of the pandemic, Health Agency statistics showed on Tuesday.   Read more »

In banning Huawei and ZTE, Sweden calls China a national security threat

Stuart Lau, South China Morning Post
Posted at Oct 21 06:53 PM

The prohibition has already drawn a response from Beijing, but stark description may lead to retaliation against telecoms giant Ericsson. Stockholm’s statement contrasts with other European countries that have been trying to deal with China more diplomatically. Read more »

Truckmaker Volvo reports 23 percent drop in profit

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 16 04:01 PM

Swedish truckmaker Volvo, one of the world's largest, on Friday reported at 23 percent drop in its third quarter net profit but said the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic was easing. Read more »

Pandemic exposes holes in Sweden's generous social welfare state

Peter S. Goodman and Erik Augustin Palm, The New York Times
Updated as of Oct 09 07:56 AM

In the popular imagination, Sweden does not seem like the sort of country prone to accepting the mass death of grandparents to conserve resources in a pandemic. Yet among the nearly 6,000 people whose deaths have been linked to the coronavirus in Sweden, 2,694, or more than 45%, had been among the country’s most vulnerable citizens: those living in nursing homes. Read more »

Survey finds negative views of China soar among advanced economies

Reuters
Posted at Oct 07 08:21 AM

Unfavorable views toward China have soared in the past year in the United States and many other advanced economies, a survey of 14 countries conducted by the US-based Pew Research Center showed on Tuesday. Read more »

Gawa sa dumi, scorpion? Kakaibang mga alak, tampok sa museum sa Sweden

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 13 01:05 AM

Experimental ang karamihan ng nasa Disgusting Food Museum sa Malmo,tulad na lang ng Scottish beer na may 55 porsyentong alcohol level na binebenta sa loob ng katawan ng squirrel.  Read more »

Moment of Mbappe brilliance gives France victory in Sweden

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 06 05:46 PM

Kylian Mbappe scored with France's only shot on goal on Saturday in Solna to give the world champions a 1-0 victory over Sweden in the opening round of matches in the Nations League. Read more »

No country for face masks: Nordics brush off mouth covers

Marc Préel with Nioucha Zakavati, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 31 12:18 AM

According to a recent survey by YouGov, only 5 to 10 percent of respondents in the Nordic countries said they used a mask in public settings. Read more »