At least 234 of Sweden's 290 municipalities have elderly care homes with confirmed or suspected coronavirus cases. But a handful seem to have been able to protect residents from Covid-19, in some cases despite staff being infected. So what did they do differently, and could their strategies be applies elsewhere?
Twenty four residents at an elderly care home in Jutland have been put into isolation, four employees have been sent home, and family visits have been stopped, after a night watchman tested positive for coronavirus.
Denmark will from this Thursday allow friends and relatives of people in elderly care homes and hospitals to visit as often as they like, in a move some experts have warned is a step too far.
Following the 2016 budget announcement on Thursday, opposition parties were quick to criticize cuts to education, the environment and developmental aid while Danish People’s Party leader Kristian Thulesen Dahl was accused of breaking election promises by his party’s supporters.
The Venstre government landed its first budget agreement on Thursday, with new large investments in healthcare and cuts to education, development aid and environmental initiatives.
People still have a lot to offer beyond age 70 says the employment minister, who plans to change current legislation to remove the possibility of forcing employees out on their 70th birthday.
All government correspondence will arrive in residents' digital mailboxes rather than their physical ones beginning on November 1st, but far from everyone is happy about the switch.
