The curious case of Sweden
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The Times
4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The Swedish government's approach to coronavirus has been controversial. Unlike in the UK, they have urged citizens to take personal responsibility for enforcing social distancing rather than using police forces to ensure rules are followed. Now that the country has passed the grim milestone of 1,000 coronavirus deaths, what can the UK learn from the Swedish government's light-touch approach to the pandemic?
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Louise Callaghan, Middle East correspondent for the Sunday Times.
Host: Manveen Rana
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| 0:00.0 | Most of the world is now in some form of lockdown, but in one country not much has changed. |
| 0:08.0 | I'll see kids going to school, people will be eating at restaurants and the sun shining so a lot of people will |
| 0:16.2 | be sitting outside in cafes. |
| 0:18.5 | Has Sweden got it right? |
| 0:21.0 | Or as their death toll reaches a thousand, are they needlessly risking lives? |
| 0:27.0 | The question is, will this policy fail? |
| 0:32.0 | Will many, many more people die and people lose their trust in the government? |
| 0:35.0 | You're listening to stories of our times, from the Times and the Sunday Times. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm Manveen Rana. |
| 0:41.0 | Today, the curious case of Sweden. Salz decorated her whole house in camouflage. |
| 0:56.3 | Lovely. |
| 0:57.3 | Even her dog Billy has a camo coat. |
| 0:58.8 | After her renovation, she transferred her other balances onto a new Barclay Card |
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| 1:05.5 | for up to 29 months. |
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| 1:08.9 | Sadly, she can't find anything else. |
| 1:11.0 | Billy? |
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