Sweden jumps into top 5 of the countries most effected by Covid-19

Things appear not to go smoothly on Sweden’s light contention strategy, as since May 13th it battles with the UK for the Europe’s most daily fatalities per capita, claiming top spot for more than a week. Now, Sweden is still a long way from reaching the heights of Spain or Belgium, but with such a high number of daily fatalities it was bound to jump the rankings of the world’s most affected countries by Covid-19. Which was the case today.

Until today, Sweden occupied the sixth spot, right after France. Until today. Today Sweden overcook France, to become the world’s fifth most affected country in the work by Covid-19. However, things don’t end here. Sweden is still suffering more daily fatalities per capita than most of the other countries, specially those on the top5, which means sooner or latter it’s bound to overtake Italy.

Remember Italy? The first country to be taken down hard by Covid-19 ? At the time no one would have guessed Sweden would even be compared to Italy, but at the current rate, it will happen in a matter of weeks.

So, it was already clear that something it not going ok on Sweden’s strategy. But now the scale of the failure is becoming ever more alarming.