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Anders Tegnell: Is Sweden the best model for coronavirus response?

Anders Tegnell: Is Sweden the best model for coronavirus response?

Sweden's no-lockdown response has attracted worldwide attention - is it working?

The Interview · BBC World Service

May 18, 202023m 27s

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Show Notes

Much of the world responded to the Covid-19 pandemic with a lockdown strategy. Now there's much focus on finding a sustainable post-lockdown strategy that doesn’t prompt a second wave of infection. Could Sweden be the model? HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to Sweden’s chief epidemiologist Anders Tegnell, the architect of a controversial no-lockdown strategy that continues to stir interest across the world. Has it worked?