Infection rates have doubled for three weeks in a row with our Swedish neighbors. During the first week of the year, more cases of infection were registered in Sweden than ever before during the pandemic.
With the Danish neighbors in the south, however, the corona trend is going in a different direction. In Denmark, there were only 6 percent more cases of infection in week 1 than in week 52, according to Expressen.
23 percent not vaccinated
There, the infection boom is about to flatten out, according to the latest the weekly overview to Statens Serum Institut – corresponding to our own National Institute of Public Health.
In week 51, the penultimate week in 2021, there were about 25,000 new cases of covid-19 in Sweden.
In week 52, the number had more than doubled, with 59,465 cases of infection. This corresponds to an increase of 112 percent.
In the first week of the year, there was another doubling from the week before: 124,211 cases. This is another strong percentage increase – 109 percent up from week 52.
Public Health Agency report for week 1 also shows that 23 percent of those infected were not vaccinated.
The increase in infection in the transition from the old to the new year has been greatest among residents in old people’s homes and nursing homes. There, the infection has almost tripled from last week, despite a high proportion of fully vaccinated. Infection rates have also risen among people receiving home nursing care.
Worrying development: – Serious
Young people hardest hit
The death toll from covid-19 in Sweden has been stable despite the explosion in the development of infection.
– The high vaccination rate seems to protect us against the extremely high death rates we had before, said state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell at a press conference on Thursday.
The infection group with the highest proportion of those infected in week 52 was young people between 20 and 24 years of age.
In the first week of the year, the group with the most cases of infection was even younger – between 16 and 19 years.
