Sweden took pride in its light-touch approach to the pandemi

Sweden took pride in its light-touch approach to the pandemic. Now it's reconsidering
Nils Adler
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Passengers wait on the platform to board the metro Friday in Stockholm. (Jonas Gratzer / Getty Images)
The sweet aroma of cardamom fills the Kankané Café as proprietor Afaaf Naddour lays out trays of fresh-baked pastries. During the dark Nordic winter, the cafe, with its cozy ambiance and convenient location near a rail station, is normally a prime spot for a traditional Swedish
fika — a coffee meet-up.
In normal times, “I would have had 10 walk-ins by now,” Naddour said on a recent midday. But with coronavirus cases rising sharply, many people are staying home, and Swedish authorities are tightening preventive measures, though they remain lax by Western European standards.

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