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Sweden has highest death rate per capita in world for a week after shunning lockdown Sweden has had the highest number of coronavirus deaths per-capita of any country in the world over the past seven days.
The high death rate comes as the Nordic country continues to buck the trend and resist a mandatory lockdown.
Data compiled by the European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control shows that Sweden had 6.08 deaths per-million inhabitants per-day on a rolling seven day average from May 13 to Wednesday. The figures put it above the UK (5.57), Belgium (4.28), the US (4.11) in terms of per-capita mortality rates. It should be noted that countries tend to suffer the peak of the virus at different times, meaning multiple countries have been at the top of the deaths-per-capita table. The deaths-per-capita tally for the entirety of the pandemic so far offers a different picture. San Marino, which has a population of just 33,000 people, has lost 41 people to Covid-19, leaving it with a death rate of 1,200 per million people. Belgium has been the second worst affected, with its 11 million person population having suffered 9,186 deaths. Andorra, Spain, Italy, the UK and France follow in the morbid rankings with significantly higher overall death rates than Sweden, which is eighth. However, comparison to Sweden's Scandinavian neighbours casts the country and its laissez faire response to the coronavirus in a bad light. Sweden, where 380 people per million have died of Covid-19 so far, is faring far worse than Denmark (96/million), Finland (55/million) and Norway (43/million). Unlike the other Nordic countries, Sweden's government has not enforced widespread lockdown measures. Basing its approach on a so-called 'principle of responsibility', the country has not only kept schools open, but they remain compulsory for children under 16 to attend.
Cafes, bars and restaurants have also stayed open for business, albeit with social distancing measures enforced. The government has urged people to work from home where possible, while not mandating that anyone does so. Anders Tegnell, Sweden’s state epidemiologist who devised the no-lockdown approach, has become a national celebrity during the pandemic. He insists that no lockdown is the best course while estimating that 40 per cent of people in Stockhol would be immune to Covid-19 by the end of May. The trade off in the short term is that although Sweden's death rate is high, its economy has not been so badly hit. The country's gross domestic product fell 0.3% in the first quarter of 2020, compared to 3.8% for the Eurozone countries on average.
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Post time 22-5-2020 11:12 AM
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