Europe

Sweden registers 8,304 cases of coronavirus, 33 new deaths

Editorial Bureau April 7, 2021

STOCKHOLM (SWEDEN) – Health agency statistics show that Sweden has registered 8,304 new coronavirus cases. The country has has shunned lockdowns throughout the pandemic The country of 10 million inhabitants registered 33 new deaths, taking the total to 13,498. The deaths registered have

Tech

Operators prep up Sweden for 5G coverage post spectrum sale

Editorial Bureau January 21, 2021

STOCKHOLM (SWEDEN) – Swedish telecom operators are looking forward to cover almost the entire country with 5G in the coming two to three years following a spectrum auction by the country’s telecom regulator PTS. The auction between four bidders, which had been prolonged citing a security review and by a lawsuit filed by Chinese telecoms […]

UK

Sweden reports first case of variant coronavirus from a visitor from UK

Editorial Bureau December 27, 2020

STOCKHOLM (SWEDEN) – The Swedish Health Agency said on Saturday, the new variant of coronavirus connected with a swift rise in infections in Britain has been detected in Sweden. This has come in the wake of a traveller from the UK becoming ill and testing positive. Health Agency official Sara Byfors told a news conference […]

Tech

Sweden to restart 5G auctions in spite of Huawei legal challenge

Editorial Bureau December 18, 2020

STOCKHOLM (SWEDEN) – Swedish telecoms regulator PTS will resume 5G spectrum auctions on Jan. 19, it said on Friday, after winning court approval to proceed even though China’s Huawei is taking legal action over its exclusion from 5G networks. A Swedish court on Wednesday backed an appeal by PTS against a ruling to stop the […]

Europe

Sweden’s nursing home struggles with COVID failures

Editorial Bureau November 30, 2020

STOCKHOLM (SWITZERLAND) – In April, a nurse at a Stockholm home for the elderly told Helen Gluckman that her 83-year-old father would likely not live for long. He had been stricken by COVID-19 and the home recommended putting him on end-of-life care, she said.     Gluckman, 55, said she agreed because she did not want […]

Europe

Swedish watchdog finds glitches in COVID care at nursing homes

Editorial Bureau November 25, 2020

STOCKHOLM (SWEDEN) – Sweden’s health watchdog said on Tuesday it had found “serious shortcomings” in COVID-19 care given to residents of nursing homes. A large number of people have died because of the same, turning the focus on the country’s light-touch pandemic strategy. Nursing homes were drastically hit by the initial wave of the

Europe

Greta Thunberg’s climate strike goes online again

Editorial Bureau October 30, 2020

STOCKHOLM (SWEDEN) – Climate activist Greta Thunberg said on Friday her regular protests will be stopped outside Sweden’s parliament because of the increase in COVID-19 infections, and return to only campaigning online. Sweden reported 2,820 new coronavirus cases on October 28. Thunberg told her roughly 4 million followers on Twitter, “The situation is

Europe

Sweden hits another daily COVID-19 case record

Editorial Bureau October 29, 2020

STOCKHOLM (SWITZERLAND) – Sweden registered 2,820 new coronavirus cases on Oct. 28, the highest since the pandemic began and the third record number in a matter of days, Health Agency statistics showed on Thursday. A steady rise in new cases has appeared to be gaining momentum in Sweden in recent weeks though the resurgence of […]

Europe

Amazon starts Swedish shopping website

Editorial Bureau October 28, 2020

STOCKHOLM (SWEDEN) – Amazon.com Inc on Wednesday opened up its Swedish website, bringing customers more than 150 million products across 30 categories, With this, they would be marking its first entry in the Nordics. Swedish customers could do shopping on Amazon through its websites in other European countries such as Germany. Getting in their purchases […]

UK

Minister says Britain is not following the Swedish approach to COVID-19

Editorial Bureau September 23, 2020

LONDON (UK) – Foreign minister Dominic Raab said Britain is not taking a Swedish approach to COVID-19. He was asked if the new measures were part of a plan to co-exist with the virus, rather than try to find a way out of it. Raab told BBC Radio when asked if Britain was now taking […]