Covid inquiry: Swedish expert ‘told UK to get tougher on the virus’
The architect of Sweden’s light-touch pandemic policy told Britain that it needed to do more to tackle the coronavirus, Sir Patrick Vallance is expected to tell the Covid inquiry on Monday.
The former chief scientific adviser’s testimony is expected to corroborate that of Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s adviser, who said that before England’s second lockdown Anders Tegnell, Vallance’s opposite number in Stockholm, “advised us to act [and] said Sweden should have done more”. However, another scientist at the same meeting disputed this interpretation.
Some scientists on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) are privately frustrated by comparisons between the UK and Sweden, which had fewer restrictions and deaths. They say that it is a myth that Sweden made it through the pandemic without a
