Topic - aged care
Sweden will not extend ban on visits to aged care homes – despite 46% of COVID deaths in aged care

The country’s aged care homes will reopen on 1 October – six months after visitors were banned in April.

The Scandinavian country drew headlines earlier this year with its “light-touch” approach, but COVID-19 swept through many of its aged care homes early in the pandemic.

As of September, 2,669 of Sweden’s’ 5,731 COVID-related deaths were in aged care – around 46%.

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