Swedes' support for anti-lockdown stance slips amid rising Covid deaths https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/03/sweden-anti-lockdown-covid-deathsNews comes as PM says high schools will switch to distance learning for rest of term Support for Sweden’s government and public confidence in authorities’ ability to handle the coronavirus crisis are sliding as the country’s anti-lockdown approach continues to be tested by mounting numbers of deaths and new cases. As COVID deaths rise, Sweden pulls a U-turn and proposes a lockdown law BY NICLAS ROLANDER AND BLOOMBERG December 9, 2020 11:51 AM GMT https://fortune.com/2020/12/09/as-covid-deaths-rise-sweden-pulls-a-u-turn-and-proposes-a-lockdown-law/ Sweden’s government proposed a law that would give it the power to close stores in response to a worsening pandemic. The bill, which would allow the minority coalition to cut shops’ opening hours and limit footfall, is due to take effect in March if it makes it through the consultation process, Minister of Health and Social Affairs Lena Hallengren said on Wednesday. She stressed that the government would only shutter businesses as a last resort, if parliament agrees. “We are not rid of the pandemic, even if the vaccines obviously brighten the prospects,” Hallengren said. “We see a need to have regulation in place during next year.” Sweden has so far avoided a full lockdown and relied mostly on voluntary measures to fight the pandemic. That’s in part because the government lacked the legal framework to do more. A temporary law that made it possible to close down businesses expired on June 30, without ever being enforced. But after a sharp increase in coronavirus cases and deaths, Sweden’s government is stepping up its fight against the pandemic. That includes capping the number of people permitted to gather in public at eight, as well as a ban on alcohol sales after 10 p.m. But Sweden currently has no legal tools to enforce limits on stores, gyms or the use of public transport. The new law, if passed, would stop short of regulating functions at private homes. Hallengren also said the government’s goal isn’t to impose future lockdowns. “We have made severe restrictions to people’s way of life, but it’s not possible to close down entirely,” she said. “However, we need to be able to take more exact measures that also impact places that are not covered by current legislation.”
回复 2楼梅干茶泡饭的帖子 So far, however, measures have mostly been voluntary and media have been full of pictures of crowded shopping streets in the run-up to Christmas.
https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-sweden-hospitals/we-need-help-says-stockholm-healthcare-chief-as-covid-fills-intensive-care-wards-idUSKBN28J23M STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The head of Stockholm’s health service appealed to national authorities on Wednesday to send specialist nurses and other hospital staff as it struggles to cope with a second wave of COVID infections that has filled intensive care wards in Sweden’s capital city.
Swedes' support for anti-lockdown stance slips amid rising Covid deaths https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/03/sweden-anti-lockdown-covid-deaths News comes as PM says high schools will switch to distance learning for rest of term Support for Sweden’s government and public confidence in authorities’ ability to handle the coronavirus crisis are sliding as the country’s anti-lockdown approach continues to be tested by mounting numbers of deaths and new cases.
As COVID deaths rise, Sweden pulls a U-turn and proposes a lockdown law BY NICLAS ROLANDER AND BLOOMBERG December 9, 2020 11:51 AM GMT https://fortune.com/2020/12/09/as-covid-deaths-rise-sweden-pulls-a-u-turn-and-proposes-a-lockdown-law/ Sweden’s government proposed a law that would give it the power to close stores in response to a worsening pandemic. The bill, which would allow the minority coalition to cut shops’ opening hours and limit footfall, is due to take effect in March if it makes it through the consultation process, Minister of Health and Social Affairs Lena Hallengren said on Wednesday. She stressed that the government would only shutter businesses as a last resort, if parliament agrees. “We are not rid of the pandemic, even if the vaccines obviously brighten the prospects,” Hallengren said. “We see a need to have regulation in place during next year.” Sweden has so far avoided a full lockdown and relied mostly on voluntary measures to fight the pandemic. That’s in part because the government lacked the legal framework to do more. A temporary law that made it possible to close down businesses expired on June 30, without ever being enforced. But after a sharp increase in coronavirus cases and deaths, Sweden’s government is stepping up its fight against the pandemic. That includes capping the number of people permitted to gather in public at eight, as well as a ban on alcohol sales after 10 p.m.
But Sweden currently has no legal tools to enforce limits on stores, gyms or the use of public transport. The new law, if passed, would stop short of regulating functions at private homes. Hallengren also said the government’s goal isn’t to impose future lockdowns. “We have made severe restrictions to people’s way of life, but it’s not possible to close down entirely,” she said. “However, we need to be able to take more exact measures that also impact places that are not covered by current legislation.”
So far, however, measures have mostly been voluntary and media have been full of pictures of crowded shopping streets in the run-up to Christmas.
那些mink都被杀掉消灭了吧。。。但愿。。。。
这个mink strain 的病毒已经传了200多人了