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The number of deaths in Sweden have been much higher compared to other Nordic states (Photo: Matias Larhag)

Sweden's non-lockdown didn't work - why not?

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EU Political
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by Nima Khorrami, Stockholm,

In an interesting turn of events, before Christmas Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf made a surprising political intervention by lambasting his country's Covid-19 strategy as a failure.

As a result, or in response, a raft of new restrictive measures has now been introduced but...

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Nima Khorrami is a research associate at the Arctic Institute in Stockholm.

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Nima Khorrami is a research associate at the Arctic Institute in Stockholm.

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