Sweden’s King Reveals His Position in Public Broadcasting SVT Christmas Interview
350,000 confirmed cases, 7,900 deaths… Far more than neighboring countries
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The king of Sweden, who tried to’collective immunity’ in response to Corona 19, which is rare in the world, eventually officially declared a quarantine failure.
Since the early days of the coronavirus outbreak, Sweden has been attracting attention by choosing measures to increase self-immunity through voluntary distancing and loose quarantine instead of active control.
Reporter Kim Tae-hyun’s report.
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Sweden attracted great attention by promoting collective immunity to increase the immunity of the whole people through low-intensity quarantine.
Eventually, the quarantine was declared a failure.
King Carl Gustaf, the 16-year-old Swedish king, said in an annual Christmas interview on public broadcaster SVT, “I think we have failed.”
King Gustav, who usually refrains from commenting on politics, criticized the government’s inadequate response, saying, “Many people have died and this is terrible.”
[칼 구스타프 16세 / 스웨덴 국왕 : 우리가 방역에서 실패했다고 생각합니다. 많은 사람이 사망했습니다. 끔찍한 일입니다.]
The king said, “The Swedish people suffered enormously under difficult conditions,” and said, “If you fail to say goodbye to your family after parting with your family, it will be very difficult and will remain scars.”
He was recently convicted of his son, Prince Carl Philip and his wife, and was self-isolated.
Sweden, which chose collective immunity from the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak, now has 350,000 confirmed cases and 7,900 deaths, far more than neighboring countries.
Sweden, where the number of confirmed cases increased sharply from April, showed a decline in the spreading trend from late June to early October.
At this time, there were premature evaluations that collective immunity was successful, but Swedish authorities explained that it was the result of consistent quarantine.
[안데르스 텡넬 / 스웨덴 공공보건청장 (지난 9월 24일) : 스웨덴에서 확진자가 다시 늘지 않는 이유는 우리가 같은 권고와 제한 조치를 꾸준히 해왔기 때문이라고 생각합니다.]
Local media and opposition parties criticize the government’s response to the coronavirus being too low.
A committee that recently independently investigated Sweden’s quarantine measures also pointed out that the government and health authorities have not been able to keep the people safe.
YTN Taehyun Kim[[email protected]]is.
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