Swedish Covid Policy Slammed by CEO on Front Line of Crisis

Pedestrians sit on steps by the fountains at the Kungstradgarden park in Stockholm on April 23.Photographer: Mikael Sjoberg/Bloomberg
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The man running one of Sweden’s biggest care-home operators has criticized his country for failing to fully grasp how Covid-19 spreads.

Martin Tiveus, the chief executive of Attendo AB, says Swedish authorities realized far too late that the virus can also be passed on by people who don’t display symptoms. That failure proved particularly devastating for residents in the kinds of elderly care facilities his company runs, he says.