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There are of course differences between the UK and Sweden including the sizes of the population, the climates, the strains of the virus prevalent in the country (Sweden reported 11% of its cases being the UK variant in early February) and the social environments (e.g. health systems, habits, governance etc.) we thus also compare Sweden with other bordering Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway, Finland) with similar environments.
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Looking at the most recent data on daily confirmed cases and deathgs for West European countries we can see the rise in cases we see:
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Sweden is leading the way in daily confirmed cases, followed by France, Italy and Austria. Italy leads in daily deaths followed by France, spa/in, Austria.