COVID-19 statistics, Sweden

LATEST COUNTRY NEWS

-	12hrs ago \| Sweden registers more than 37000 new COVID-19 cases, new record
-	18 Jan \| Sweden scraps demand for negative COVID test to enter country
-	17 Jan \| Swedish Security Service investigates drones at three nuclear plants
-	15 Jan \| Swedish police hunt for drone seen flying over Forsmark nuclear plant
-	14 Jan \| Swedish PM tests positive for COVID as fourth wave surges
-	14 Jan \| Sweden to withdraw from French-led special forces mission in Mali - minister
-	13 Jan \| Sweden sees infection peak at end of January amid Omicron spike
-	13 Jan \| Sweden boosts patrols on Gotland amid NATO-Russia tensions
-	12 Jan \| Sweden cuts recommended gap between second and third COVID shot
-	12 Jan \| Swedish central bank says own risk buffer needs to be bigger - Reuters.com

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Newsnodes	1 Jun 2021, 14:11 Sweden is still not releasing COVID-19 updates: "The SmiNet database has been temporarily closed after attempted data breaches. To ensure that the statistics on covid-19 are more fully reported, the next update will take place on Thursday, June 3, 2021."
Newsnodes	28 May 2021, 15:01 Sweden today (28 May) announces there will be no update as the SmiNet-database has been closed after attempts to steal data. Source: www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se
Newsnodes	27 Oct 2020, 15:39 As Sweden has again revised the number of total COVID-19 deaths, we have revised all historic Sweden data to reflect the revised data as published on the official Swedish tracker: experience.arcgis.com
Newsnodes	6 Oct 2020, 16:49 Sweden today revises the total number of deaths down from 5895 to 5883. (-12)
Newsnodes	14 Sep 2020, 20:38 Sweden has now also stopped updating on Monday's, which means they only report on 4 days a week: Tuesday to Friday. Quote: "The Public Health Authority is introducing new routines for updating statistics on the website from today 14 September. The change means that updating will only take place every Tuesday up to and including Friday."
Newsnodes	30 Aug 2020, 00:18 Sweden has substracted around 3700 confirmed cases from its totals after discovering these people had falsely been diagnosed with COVID-19. Source: www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se
Newsnodes	19 Jun 2020, 20:43 Sweden has no updates today. Apparently just like Finland, Sweden will stop reporting in weekends, and they count today (Friday) as weekend as its MidSummer's Eve. www.svt.se
Newsnodes	31 May 2020, 16:26 Today Sweden reports 0 new deaths. The number of deaths is always low on Sunday, but they seem to have not updated the amount of deaths at all today.
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LATEST NEWSNODES DATA

	CONFIRMED CASES
	1,700,336 in total	( +27301) daily average*
	REPORTED DEATHS
	15,625 in total	( +23) daily average*

Latest update: 19 January, 14:13 CET
*) The daily average increase is the average number of new cases/deaths/tests reported in the last 7 days.

COVID VARIANTS

The Omicron (B.1.1.529)-variant* (71%) was the dominant COVID-19 strain in Sweden over the last 4 weeks.
The chart below shows how often a coronavirus variant was detected among sequenced cases over time. The data is meant to give a indication of general trends.

Source: GISAID

For more information about COVID-variants, visit our COVID variant monitor.

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SWEDEN DATA

Daily reporting time:
~14:00hrs (Tu-Fr) CET

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Please note: the regional charts comparing Sweden with neighbouring countries in The Nordics have been moved to the region page of The Nordics.

NEW CONFIRMED CASES PER DAY (SWEDEN)

Data range: 26 Dec '21 - 19 Jan '2231 Jan '20 - 19 Jan '22

NEW DEATHS PER DAY (SWEDEN)

Data range: 26 Dec '21 - 19 Jan '2231 Jan '20 - 19 Jan '22

TABLE: COVID-19 DATA FOR SWEDEN

Below is all historic data provided by Newsnodes. The historic data is a mix of data collected from the World Health Organization, Governments and National Public Health Authorities.

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