OPEN SEASON Sweden suffered its deadliest month in 30 YEARS in April but country still refuses to shut bars, schools and restaurants
Sweden has suffered a higher death rate during the coronavirus pandemic than its Scandinavian neighbours - but its bars, schools and restaurants remain open.
On April 1, Sweden reported 239 coronavirus-related deaths, but that number reached 2,586 by April 30.
The Statistics Office said the total death toll in April this year - also counting deaths not related to Covid-19 - was 10,458, Reuters reports.
This is the highest death toll the country reported in a single month since December 1993, when 11,057 people died.
'DEADLIEST MONTH'
Tomas Johansson, population statistician at Statistics Sweden, said: "We have to go back to December 1993 to find more dead during a single month."
In total, 97,008 deaths were recorded in Sweden during the whole of 1993, which in turn was the deadliest year since 1918, when the Spanish flu pandemic ravaged the country.
Sweden has kept schools open for children under the age of 16, along with cafes, bars, restaurants and businesses, and urged people to respect social distancing guidelines.
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