Sweden's confirmed COVID-19 cases surpass 70,000

FILE PHOTO - A man walks on an almost empty Arlanda airport, north of Stockholm, while the spread of the coronavirus disease continues in Stockholm, Sweden April 9, 2020. Anders Wiklund/TT News Agency/via REUTERSSTOCKHOLM: Sweden's number of confirmed COVID-19 crossed the 70,000 mark on Thursday , while deaths rose by 41 to 5,411, health agency statistics showed on Thursday.

Sweden recorded 947 new cases to put the total at 70,639. Expanded testing has seen daily new cases soar over the past month, eclipsing rates elsewhere in the European Union, but deaths and hospitalisations have tumbled from peaks in April.The country adopted a softer approach to fighting the new coronavirus, spurning a hard lock down and putting its pandemic strategy in the international spotlight.

Sweden's death toll has been many times higher relative to the size of the population than that of its Nordic neighbours, where authorities took a stricter approach, but lower than in some countries that locked down, such as Britain, Italy and Spain.

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