Covid infections that has filled intensive care wards in Sweden's capital city.Sweden, which has not opted for the kind of lockdown adopted by many other European nations, has suffered many times more Covid-19 deaths per capita than its Nordic neighbours, with the total reaching almost 7,300 on Wednesday.Stockholm and the surrounding region are among the areas hardest hit with 2,836 deaths.
Infection rates are picking up again after a lull in the summer and autumn, and intensive care wards are now full."We need help," Bjorn Eriksson, the director of healthcare for the Stockholm region, told a news conference.There were 814 Covid-19 patients being treated in Stockholm hospitals and geriatric wards on Wednesday, up from 748 last Friday, the.