Introduction
An article published March 25, 2021 “UK Lockdown One Year On: It Doesn't Work, It Never Worked, & It Wasn't Supposed To Work” – by Kit Knightly at
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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.
We use the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) COVID-19 data at https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19.
Per Capita
If we compare the populations of Nordic countries adjacent to Sweden with the UK there is a huge difference:
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Looking at the most recent data on daily confirmed cases and deaths for West European countries we can see the rise in cases:
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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, Spain, Austria.