UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, nonetheless, announced changes to restrictions in England last week, shaping the country's Covid-19 response in the image of Sweden's. As most of the Western world went into lockdown over the spring, Sweden's response was an outlier. So it kept open its bars and restaurants, as well as schools for under-16s, as other countries had them shuttered. Swedish epidemiologist Anders Tegnell from the Public Health Agency of Sweden at a news conference in Stockholm on September 1. Sweden's Public Health Agency denied the country was backpedaling in its approach, saying in an email to CNN that it had always been prepared to advise the use of masks and impose restrictions in certain situations.

Source: CNN September 28, 2020 08:48 UTC