Sweden's top virologist has admitted he is 'not convinced at all' that the country's lockdown-free strategy is right - as Sweden saw a sharp fall in its daily death toll and number of new infections today. The daily death toll fell from 124 yesterday to 67 today, bringing the overall tally from 2,586 to 2,653. Sweden's daily figures have been highly erratic, and a fall in numbers has often been followed by a surge when a backlog in cases is fully accounted for. Sweden's population-adjusted death toll is lower than in Britain, France and Spain, which have all imposed full-scale lockdowns since March. The Swedish health agency's modelling suggests about 25 per cent of people in the Stockholm region have had or will contract the disease.

Source: Daily Mail May 01, 2020 14:21 UTC