Hospitals in the Swedish capital Stockholm are struggling to cope with a surge in new cases of Covid-19 after seeing an increase of around 75 patients requiring hospital care since the end of last week.
The number of new cases has surged across the Nordic nation in recent weeks, rising past peaks hit during the spring, although a huge increase in testing since the pandemic struck early in the year makes comparisons difficult.
Stockholm is again among the areas hardest hit by infections and hospitalisations after a spring and early summer when it accounted for well over a third of the country's more than 6,000 dead in the pandemic. "We can see today a large increase in the number of patients who have become so ill with Covid-19 that they