Iran Press/ Europe: Sweden set a new every day file for COVID-19 cases for the third time this week, registering 23,877 cases on Jan. 5, well being company knowledge confirmed on Friday, as a fourth wave swept the nation and piled pressure on its healthcare system, Reuters reported.
The mounting wave of COVID-19 cases is more and more pushed by the extra contagious Omicron variant and has seen hospitalisations rise quickly in lots of elements of the nation, though deaths have remained comparatively secure to date.
Sweden, which has spurned onerous lockdowns via the pandemic, tightened restrictions on public gatherings final month and has urged all who can to do business from home in an effort to attenuate the unfold of the virus.
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