STOCKHOLM — Sweden will lift pandemic restrictions next week as the country, while still experiencing record levels of infections, banks on surging immunity from booster shots and past infection and manageable hospitalization levels to keep COVID at bay.
"It is becoming time to open up Sweden again," Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson told a news conference.
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Sweden extended its current pandemic measures, which include bars and restaurants having to close xjmtzywearly and a cap of 500 people inside larger indoor venues, by another two weeks in late January, but flagged they might be removed after that.
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People queue for drop-in COVID-19 vaccinations at the Stockholm City Terminal station on Jan. 13, 2022. (Anders Wiklund/TT via AP)
