Sweden recorded in April, the highest death rate in the past years

The Coronavirus pandemic in Germany medicine, politics, tourism and society firmly in its grip: More than 4.8 million people globally have become infected with the pathogen of Sars-CoV-2, 175.672 of them in Germany.

The Swedes go in the Corona of crisis, the much-acclaimed exceptionalism. Not a true Lockdown, a lot of movement and self-responsibility. Given the high death figures for the population of 10.3 million strong Scandinavian country, more and more doubts arise. 10.458 people died in April – this is the highest rate of death for years. The Swedish statistics Agency informed. © Anders Wiklund (dpa) Strange exceptionalism? / German Intern experienced Corona-crisis in Sweden

“We have to go back to December 1993, in order to have more Dead in just one month,” said Tomas Johansson, from the statistics authority. In the entire year of 1993, Sweden recorded more than 97,000 deaths – the highest Rate since 1918, as well as in Sweden, the Spanish flu was rampant. An official explanation for the high number of deaths in 1993, it is Johansson that. However, Sweden was searched for in that year a wave of Influenza home.

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