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Sweden Bans Meetings of More Than 500 People to Contain Coronavirus
- Temporary ban is intended to limit the spread of coronavirus
- Confirmed cases in Sweden rose to 461 on Wednesday from 326
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Sweden’s government will comply with a request from the Public Health Agency to ban gatherings of more than 500 people in an effort to limit the spread of the coronavirus in the Nordic nation.