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Dr. Tegnell, thank you so much for joining us on the daily social distancing show.

You are chatting to us from a train station right now, is that correct?

Yeah, that's correct.

The train station is Stockholm, Sweden.

Okay. Are you commuting? Are you still out and about?

Yes, I'm commuting for my home, which is in Linchoping,

a town of 200 km to itself.

Okay. Sweden is an interesting outlier in the world.

Where most countries in the world have decided to completely lock everything down,

keep people indoors and shut down the country.

Sweden has gone for a different approach.

Sweden has decided to keep the country fairly open,

but require citizens to social distance themselves, to remain responsible,

to limit gatherings, to below 50 people.

And I think, you know, like older people are meant to stay at home, etc.

Tell me about what Sweden is doing.

And then would you mind explaining to me how Sweden came to that decision

to do it differently to everyone else in the world?

No, but I think you have made a fair description.

Instead of closing it uncomplicated, we have tried to look at different situations,

where we know that the spread is most dangerous, like in restaurants.

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