Sweden ’s mild approach shot to the coronavirus has resulted in only a pocket-size portion of the universe grow antibodies to the computer virus . This means the rural area appear extremely unlikely to tackle the virus by achieving ruck immunity .
A new study issue this weekshowed that just 6.1%of Sweden ’s population had developed coronavirus antibodies by recent May , a lower measure than some of its wellness agency ’s earlier models had predicted .
Sweden did not impose a exacting lockdown unlike most European country and kept undetermined schools , restaurant , and bar , bank instead on citizens to enact voluntary societal distancing measures .
wellness official have importune that is not the specific goal of its approach , which they state is designed to keep a 2nd wave and slow up the computer virus enough for health services not to become overwhelmed , Reuters report .
But the land ’s extremely controversial approaching has become associated with the ruck resistance strategy , give that its government expected a large part of its population to become infect with the disease .
Anders Tegnell , the country ’s chief epidemiologist , state the Financial Timesin April that he expected 40 % of the great unwashed in Stockholm , the uppercase , to be immune to Covid-19 by the end of May .
But the 6.1 % figure shows that it is very far off accomplish even partial herd immunity , which epidemiologists expect would require at least 60 % of the universe to become immune to the coronavirus , according to a New York Times report . Once that proportion of a population is infected , the disease has very low transmittal because mass with antibodies are resistant and do not pass it to others .
" The spread is down than we have thought but not a raft lower , " enjoin Anders Tegnell on Thursday , consort to Reuters .
" We have different levels of immunity on different parts of the population at this phase , from 4 % to 5 % to 20 % to 25 % . "
Sweden ’s coronavirus death toll surpassed 5,000 this week , mean its mortality rate per capita is very significantly high than its neighboring Scandinavian countries as well as one of the high in the world .
Update : An earlier version of this article link up to research suggesting that 90 % of the population would ask to acquire antibodies against the coronavirus , but the research key the layer required for measles rather than coronavirus .
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