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Sweden ends Covid-19 testing as pandemic restrictions lifted
Updated On: 10 February, 2022 10:05 AM IST | Stockholm | Agencies
Only health care, elderly care workers and most vulnerable will be entitled to free PCR testing if symptomatic, rest will stay home if they show symptoms
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A staff member collects the last COVID-19 PCR tests at the testing site of Svagertorp in Malmoe, Sweden on Tuesday. Pic/AFP
Sweden has halted wide-scale testing for COVID-19 even among people showing symptoms of an infection, putting an end to the mobile city-square tent sites, drive-in swab centers and home-delivered tests that became ubiquitous during the pandemic and provided essential data for tracking its spread.
The move puts the Scandinavian nation at odds with most of Europe, but some experts say it could become the norm as costly testing yields fewer benefits with the easily transmissible but milder omicron variant and as governments begin to consider treating COVID-19 like they do other endemic illnesses.
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