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Sweden Starts Criminal Probe Into Care Home After Coronavirus Deaths

A woman sits outside her nursing home in Stockholm on May 4.

A woman sits outside her nursing home in Stockholm on May 4.

Photographer: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images

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Swedish prosecutors have launched an investigation into an elderly care home in Stockholm where more than a third of residents have reportedly died after the novel coronavirus spread at the facility.