Sweden’s state epidemiologist accuses WHO of false interpretation of data

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Sweden’s state epidemiologist accuses WHO of false interpretation of data

He is the face of the Swedish Corona-special path and with the assessment of the Situation in his country by the world health organization does not agree: state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell has reacted with incomprehension on the classification of Sweden as a special-risk country by the WHO. "Unfortunately, this is a total misinterpretation of the Daten", Tegnell said on Friday morning, in the morning, the Studio of Swedish TV channel SVT.

Sweden have increasing numbers of cases, which were based, however, that the country to run significantly more Tests than before, said Tegnell. "It is unfortunate to mix up Sweden with countries that had previously had no problems at all and apparently only at the beginning of their epidemic are." The WHO would have been likely to simply report in Stockholm, then you would be able to give a more detailed picture of the Swedish Situation, said Tegnell. Reuters/Pontus Lundahl/TT NEWS AGENCY/AP/dpa , The state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell at a press conference.

The head of the WHO regional office for Europe, Hans Kluge, had spoken on Thursday by once again increasing Corona-Pay in Europe. 30 countries in the who European Region had reported over the past two weeks re-growing case, said the WHO regional Director on his weekly Online press conference in Copenhagen. In eleven countries, accelerate the transfer rate to a very marked resurgence of Coronavirus have led – including, in addition to Sweden countries like Armenia, Azerbaijan, Albania and the Ukraine. In these countries strong pressures for health care threatened, if not decided against the spread, action would be taken, so Wise.

In Sweden, the Corona has used the crisis as early as in Germany, for example. The Scandinavian country of the EU has responded with a much looser action than most of the other States. Until today, the Swedish infection and death figures are much higher than in the Rest of Scandinavia.

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