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It’s the start of the new school year in Sweden, and the highly contagious delta type is starting to hit the country hard, with cases doubling since the end of July, Richard Orange reports.

In many countries, that could mean one thing: closure. But not in Sweden.

Sweden’s decision to avoid lockdown and leave bars, restaurants, malls and primary schools open throughout the pandemic has led to heated debate internationally.

Millions of people around the world have been confined to their homes, watching businesses plummet, and struggling to stay on top of their studies amid wave after wave of restrictions to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

But for around 10 million Swedes, the 18 months since the first domestic case of Covid-19 was recorded last February have been largely unremarkable.

This does not mean that the virus has not taken its toll – nearly 15,000 people have died in total, about 1,450 per million. But this death rate is below the average for the European Union as a whole (1,684), and well below those of France, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom.

Some now acknowledge that Sweden has not become the cautionary tale many expected.

To read more about the Sweden Experience, read Richard’s story here

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