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The WHO stated on Wednesday that, the place the epidemic was spreading, individuals – together with youngsters and college students aged 12 or over – ought to at all times put on masks in outlets, workplaces and faculties that lack satisfactory air flow, and when receiving guests at house in poorly ventilated rooms.
However, the Swedish Health Agency, largely behind Sweden’s no-lockdown technique, has kept away from recommending masks, citing poor proof of their effectiveness and fears that masks is perhaps used as an excuse to not isolate when experiencing signs.
“Face masks may be needed in some situations. Those situations have not arisen in Sweden yet, according to our dialogue with the (healthcare) regions,” Anders Tegnell, Sweden’s chief epidemiologist, instructed a information convention on Thursday.
“WHO is clear that the state of evidence for masks is weak. All studies so far suggest that it is much more important to keep your distance than to have a face mask,” he stated.
In a bid to stem a extreme second wave, Prime minister Stefan Lofven introduced on Thursday that top faculties would swap to distance studying for the remainder of the yr.
Sweden registered 35 new COVID-19 associated deaths on Thursday, taking the whole to 7,007.
The nation additionally registered 6,485 new coronavirus instances on Thursday. That in contrast with a excessive of seven,240 every day instances recorded two weeks in the past.
Sweden’s dying fee per capita is a number of instances increased than that of its Nordic neighbours, however decrease than a number of European nations that opted for lockdowns.
(Reporting by Johan Ahlander and Simon Johnson; Editing by Edmund Blair and Mark Potter)
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