'We need help': Swedish capital begs rest of country to send medics as hospitals fill with COVID patients

‘We need help’: Swedish capital begs rest of country to send medics as hospitals fill with COVID patients
Connor Parker
Although Sweden did not enforce a strict lockdown they have been socially distancing since the pandemic began. (Getty)
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Stockholm's health service has appealed to national authorities to send nurses to the city as it struggles to cope with a second wave of COVID infections that has filled intensive care wards in Sweden's capital.
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.

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