Sweden still hopes to curb coronavirus spread

Anders Tegnel, chief epidemiologist at Sweden's Public Health Agency, estimates that the spread of COVID-19 in the country is still at an early stage, and it is still possible to delay it. This requires that everyone strictly comply with the recommendations of the State authorities on preventive and hygienic measures. This was reported on March 16 by the Swedish edition of Sveriges Radio. We have not yet stepped on this steep, so to speak, curve, Tegnel said, pointing to the exponential schedule of the spread of coronavirus infection COVID-19 in other countries. I think we still have a fairly high chance of preventing the widespread spread of COVID-19 in Sweden if everyone follows the recommendations to stay at home in the disease. The chief epidemiologist once again declared the futility of the strict measures that have already been taken by many European countries, such as the closure of borders, restaurants, shops and the imposition of restrictions on meetings. We must remember that all precautions are taken not for a day or two, but with a high probability for a few months, so such measures must be stable and sustainable. We can 't just shut it down for months, Tegnel said. But in other countries they did, the journalist Sveriges Radio objected to him. Yeah, but it won 't help. You can 't just shut down the country completely for a few months, the epidemiologist paraded.