Sweden to lift most Covid restrictions next week

"It's time to open up Sweden," says PM Magdalena Andersson after confirming most restrictions will end on 9 February

Sweden has become the latest European nation to announce it is lifting coronavirus restrictions. At a press conference yesterday (3 February), prime minister Magdalena Andersson, minister of social…

affairs Lena Hallengren and the director general of the Swedish Public Health Agency, Karin Tegmark Wisell, confirmed the government will remove most measures on 9 February.

Capacity limits and vaccine certificates for live events will be discontinued, while the government also intends to lift entry restrictions for the Nordic countries.

Live events in…

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