Stockholm, January 27 (Xinhua) -- Data released by the Swedish Public Health Agency on the 27th showed that the cumulative number of confirmed covid-19 cases in the country reached 2015276, and the cumulative number of deaths reached 15,778.
Britta Björkholm, an official at the Swedish Public Health Agency, said at a news conference on the same day that the spread of the new crown virus in Sweden is currently at a "very high level" and that "this wave of the epidemic will soon reach its peak". Infection with the Omiljung strain has become the main cause of recent new confirmed cases in Sweden.
Björkholm said the Omilkejon strain spreads so widely in Sweden that many people may become infected in the coming weeks. Of the 256,000 new confirmed COVID-19 cases in the third week of this year, 29% were unvaccinated.
She said the actual number of infections may be much higher than the number of confirmed cases detected, but the proportion of severe cases caused by the Omiljun strain is significantly lower, while the incidence of unvaccinated people is significantly higher.
Since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, Sweden's epidemic prevention policy has been relatively relaxed. Swedish Minister of Health and Social Affairs Lena Harengren said on the 26th that according to the epidemic forecast, the country plans to remove most of the epidemic prevention restrictions from February 9.
According to the data released by the Swedish Public Health Agency, as of the 27th, of the country's about 10.4 million people, the proportion of People aged 12 and over in Sweden who completed two doses of vaccination was 83.6%, and the proportion of people aged 18 years and above who received the third dose of vaccine was 45.4%.
Source: Xinhua Net