In past 24 hours, Sweden, Europe had N/A new cases, N/A deaths and 18 recoveries.

As of January 13, 2023, Sweden had reported 2,687,840 confirmed coronavirus cases. Cases first started to rise sharply in spring 2020, when the number of new confirmed cases per day started to increase, however the peak was much higher in winter 2021/22.

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19)

The coronavirus was officially declared as a worldwide pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. The novel coronavirus was first detected at a fish and seafood market in the Chinese city of Wuhan, in the Hubei province, in late December 2019. Since then, the virus reached over 668 million cases worldwide as of January 9, 2023.

Coronavirus-related deaths in Sweden

The first coronavirus related death in Sweden was reported on March 11, 2020 and as of January 13, 2023, the number of deaths reached a total of 22,645. The highest number of deaths occurred among the age group from 80 to 90 years old.

Sweden recorded 24166 Coronavirus Deaths since the epidemic began, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In addition, Sweden reported 2708122 Coronavirus Cases. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for Sweden Coronavirus Deaths.

As of January 11, 2023, the highest number of deaths due to the coronavirus in Sweden was among individuals aged 80 to 90 years old. In this age group there were 9,124 deaths as a result of the virus. The overall Swedish death toll was 22,645 as of January 11, 2023.

The first case of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Sweden was confirmed on February 4, 2020. The number of cases has since risen to over 2.68 million, as of January 2023. For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

The first death case related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Sweden was reported on March 11, 2020. The number of deaths has since increased to a total of 22,645 as of January 13, 2023. The number of people who were or had been confirmed infected by the virus in the country had reached a total of 2,687,840 as of January 13, 2023.

For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

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9th November 2020

Context

With European governments struggling with a 'second-wave' of rising cases, hospitalizations and deaths resulting from the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19), I wanted to make a comparative analysis between the data coming out of major European nations since the start of the pandemic.

It has been well publicized that Sweden has taken a different approach to most Western European nations when it comes to public policy regarding COVID-19. This has drawn significant attention from across the world and so, allied to the fact that Sweden publishes it's data in a clear and understandable way that is easy to access, it seemed like a good place to start.

In time, I hope to construct other European national datasets for direct comparison - probably starting with my own country, the United Kingdom.

I also should say I am not an Epidemiologist, Sociologist or even a Data Scientist. I am actually a Mechanical Engineer! The objective here is to improve my data science skills and maybe provide some useful data to the wider community.

Acknowledgements

This data was obtained from the Official Swedish COVID-19 Public Health Agency (Folkhälsomyndigheten) website: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/09f821667ce64bf7be6f9f87457ed9aa/page/page_0/

The notebook used to obtained is public and can be found here: https://www.kaggle.com/vascodegama/sweden-covid-19-data-scrape

Updates

It is my understanding that the weekly data is published by the Swedish Health Agency every 2pm (CET) on a Thursday so the initial aim is to update the whole dataset each Friday.

Any questions, comments or suggestions are most welcome! I am open to requests and collaborations! Stay Safe!

Based on a comparison of coronavirus deaths in 210 countries relative to their population, Peru had the most losses to COVID-19 up until July 13, 2022. As of the same date, the virus had infected over 557.8 million people worldwide, and the number of deaths had totaled more than 6.3 million. Note, however, that COVID-19 test rates can vary per country. Additionally, big differences show up between countries when combining the number of deaths against confirmed COVID-19 cases. The source seemingly does not differentiate between "the Wuhan strain" (2019-nCOV) of COVID-19, "the Kent mutation" (B.1.1.7) that appeared in the UK in late 2020, the 2021 Delta variant (B.1.617.2) from India or the Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) from South Africa.

The difficulties of death figures

This table aims to provide a complete picture on the topic, but it very much relies on data that has become more difficult to compare. As the coronavirus pandemic developed across the world, countries already used different methods to count fatalities, and they sometimes changed them during the course of the pandemic. On April 16, for example, the Chinese city of Wuhan added a 50 percent increase in their death figures to account for community deaths. These deaths occurred outside of hospitals and went unaccounted for so far. The state of New York did something similar two days before, revising their figures with 3,700 new deaths as they started to include “assumed” coronavirus victims. The United Kingdom started counting deaths in care homes and private households on April 29, adjusting their number with about 5,000 new deaths (which were corrected lowered again by the same amount on August 18). This makes an already difficult comparison even more difficult. Belgium, for example, counts suspected coronavirus deaths in their figures, whereas other countries have not done that (yet). This means two things. First, it could have a big impact on both current as well as future figures. On April 16 already, UK health experts stated that if their numbers were corrected for community deaths like in Wuhan, the UK number would change from 205 to “above 300”. This is exactly what happened two weeks later. Second, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly which countries already have “revised” numbers (like Belgium, Wuhan or New York) and which ones do not. One work-around could be to look at (freely accessible) timelines that track the reported daily increase of deaths in certain countries. Several of these are available on our platform, such as for Belgium, Italy and Sweden. A sudden large increase might be an indicator that the domestic sources changed their methodology.

Where are these numbers coming from?

The numbers shown here were collected by Johns Hopkins University, a source that manually checks the data with domestic health authorities. For the majority of countries, this is from national authorities. In some cases, like China, the United States, Canada or Australia, city reports or other various state authorities were consulted. In this statistic, these separately reported numbers were put together. For more information or other freely accessible content, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

This dataset shows statistics for COVID-19 in Sweden on the number of reported confirmed cases, intensive care of illnesses and deaths per sex.

This dataset shows statistics for COVID-19 in Sweden per region on the number of reported confirmed cases, disease cases per 100 000 inhabitants, intensive care cases and deaths.

The number of COVID-19 vaccination doses administered in Sweden rose to 26117645 as of Oct 27 2023. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for Sweden Coronavirus Vaccination Total.

This dataset shows statistics for COVID-19 in Sweden on the number of reported confirmed cases, intensively managed disease cases and deaths per age group.

Supplementary data and analysis files for the article "Soft law and individual responsibility: A review of the Swedish Policy Response to Covid-19" by Ulrika Winblad, Douglas Spangler, and Anna-Karin Swenning.

Sweden Business Survey: COVID-19 Effect: SO: Services: FT: Number Risk data was reported at 80.000 % in 11 Aug 2021. This records an increase from the previous number of 75.000 % for 09 Jun 2021. Sweden Business Survey: COVID-19 Effect: SO: Services: FT: Number Risk data is updated daily, averaging 68.000 % from May 2020 to 11 Aug 2021, with 17 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 82.000 % in 12 May 2021 and a record low of 55.000 % in 26 Aug 2020. Sweden Business Survey: COVID-19 Effect: SO: Services: FT: Number Risk data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Economic Research. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Sweden – Table SE.S009: Business Survey: COVID-19 Effect: Seizing Operations.

WHO: COVID-2019: Number of Patients: Death: To-Date: Sweden data was reported at 16,100.000 Person in 04 Feb 2022. This stayed constant from the previous number of 16,100.000 Person for 03 Feb 2022. WHO: COVID-2019: Number of Patients: Death: To-Date: Sweden data is updated daily, averaging 12,248.500 Person from Jan 2020 to 04 Feb 2022, with 736 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 16,100.000 Person in 04 Feb 2022 and a record low of 0.000 Person in 11 Mar 2020. WHO: COVID-2019: Number of Patients: Death: To-Date: Sweden data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Health Organization. The data is categorized under Daily Database’s Disease Outbreaks – Table WHO.D001: World Health Organization: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-2019): by Country and Region.

Sweden Business Survey: COVID-19 Effect: SO: Services: EA: TE: High Risk data was reported at 0.000 % in 11 Aug 2021. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1.000 % for 09 Jun 2021. Sweden Business Survey: COVID-19 Effect: SO: Services: EA: TE: High Risk data is updated daily, averaging 3.000 % from May 2020 (Median) to 11 Aug 2021, with 17 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 23.000 % in 13 May 2020 and a record low of 0.000 % in 11 Aug 2021. Sweden Business Survey: COVID-19 Effect: SO: Services: EA: TE: High Risk data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Economic Research. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Sweden – Table SE.S009: Business Survey: COVID-19 Effect: Seizing Operations (Discontinued).

Donor pool and Sweden during the first wave: Lockdown measures and dates.

This Project Tycho dataset includes a CSV file with COVID-19 data reported in SWEDEN: 2019-12-30 - 2021-07-31. It contains counts of cases and deaths. Data for this Project Tycho dataset comes from: "COVID-19 Data Repository by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University", "European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control Website", "World Health Organization COVID-19 Dashboard". The data have been pre-processed into the standard Project Tycho data format v1.1.

The Swedish approach to managing the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic has received significant attention in international scholarly work and the press. For this dataset, we have reviewed governmental and media archives to build a detailed timeline that chronicles significant policies, interventions, and events in the Swedish management of COVID-19. The dataset contains summary descriptions of what took place, when it happened, and who the principal actors involved were. Links to primary sources are provided for each entry. Because of the level of detail and saturation, the dataset offers a detailed account of Swedish pandemic governance and will benefit anyone working on Swedish pandemic management or doing comparative work between Sweden and other jurisdictions.

The dataset contains details on the date an event took place (column 1), tags to facilitate navigation (column 2), details on the principal actors involved in the event (column 3), a summary description of what took place and who was involved (column 4), and links to primary materials (e.g., archival entries) (columns 4-12). Through a structured and detailed outline, the dataset provides a saturated account of policy interventions and events in Sweden during the 2020-21 global COVID-19 pandemic and complements existing and less detailed timelines published at earlier points in the period.

The lockdown effect on COVID-19 infections and deaths.

Sweden's management of the coronavirus pandemic, beginning in early 2020, has been much discussed because it deviated from other countries' equivalents. Set in the context of scholarly debate about the balance between politicians and experts in political decision-making, we argue that a necessary condition for this case of Swedish exceptionalism was the manner of policy-making adopted by the Swedish authorities. In this article, we describe this policy-making procedure, which involved a radical form of delegation by elected politicians to appointed experts, and seek to explain how it came about. We focus on the 1st year of the pandemic, and use media reports and other public documents, including parts of a public inquiry, as our empirical material.