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Now the mass testing will be evaluated
Now the Public Health Authority will evaluate the mass testing. Photo: ADAM IHSE / TT
Now the large-scale testing for suspected cases of covid-19 is to be followed up and evaluated. The government gives the task to the Public Health Authority.
The assignment includes seeing if the testing had an effect on the spread of infection and how the practical implementation worked, writes TT.
The evaluation must also assess whether the monitoring of the different virus variants was “purposeful and cost-effective”.
The task also includes assessing which lessons from the pandemic should be taken forward into planning for possible future pandemics.
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Rattled priest gets his collar back
A priest in Malmö was arrested for aggravated drunk driving after being stopped outside a pub on Möllevången last spring. He had 1.99 per thousand of alcohol in his blood, also lacked a driver’s license and was sentenced to one month in prison.
After this, the judicial chapter in Lund decided on a so-called collaring, in practice a professional ban, writes Sydsvenskan. The priest had also previously gone there for both drunk driving and illegal driving.
The priest appealed and now the Church of Sweden’s appeals board – “let it be after some hesitation”, as they put it – has given him back the collar with a probationary period of three years. He himself states to the board that he sold his cars and is in therapy.
However, there will be no question of a new service. However, the priest, who says he is in high demand, gets back the right to marry, baptize and bury. (TT)
Israel attacks targets in Lebanon
Israel’s military, the IDF, stated early on Good Friday morning that it is carrying out airstrikes against targets in Lebanon from where more than 30 rockets are said to have been fired at Israel on Thursday.
“The IDF struck targets including terrorist infrastructure belonging to Hamas in southern Lebanon,” the Israeli military writes on Twitter.
At least three explosions were reportedly heard in the Tire region of southern Lebanon on Friday morning, according to an AFP reporter on the ground.
Man to hospital after apartment fire
A man in his 30s has been taken to hospital after a fire in an apartment in Alby south of Stockholm.
The emergency services started cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the man before he was taken away by ambulance.
The alarm about the fire came at 11 p.m.
Shots fired at apartment door
Several shots have been fired at an apartment door in an apartment building in Rinkeby in Stockholm.
Several people were in the apartment during the shooting, which occurred shortly after midnight.
No one is injured.
The police have cordoned off the crime scene. No perpetrator has been caught.
Explosions in Gaza
Several explosions were heard in Gaza on Thursday evening, Reuters and AP write.
At the same time, Israeli planes flew over the area.
The Israeli military says it bombed four targets linked to the Islamist group Hamas, which rules Gaza.
The air raid warning has also gone off in nearby Israeli cities.
The explosions occurred shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised an “aggressive response” to the rocket attacks from Lebanon earlier on Thursday.
The background to the attacks is a time of heightened tensions between Israel and Gaza.
On Wednesday morning, Israeli police stormed the famous al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, sparking protests from the Palestinian side and rocket attacks from Gaza.
Blames Afghanistan flop on Trump
Donald Trump gets the blame. Photo: Evan Vucci/AP
The White House has released a report blaming the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan on former President Donald Trump.
This is reported by the AFP news agency.
The White House believes that the incumbent President Biden was “very limited” by the choices made by his predecessor Trump.
Trump set a date for the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, without his staff presenting a plan for how it would be done.
At the same time, the US intelligence service admits that they completely misjudged the situation.
– It is clear that we did not get this, says John Kirby, spokesperson for the US National Security Council at a press conference according to TT.
Girls jumped on by gangs of guys
Three ten-year-old girls were assaulted by several boys at the Brunnsparken tram stop in Gothenburg on Thursday evening.
One of the guys is said to have filmed the incident.
After the beating, they disappeared towards Lilla Bommen, according to surveillance cameras. No one is arrested.
The girls have received minor injuries to their faces.
– It has resulted in a cracked lip and nosebleed on one of the girls. Another may have had his nose broken, but none of them needed an ambulance, says police spokesperson Jens Andersson to GP.
Two beaten by robbers in apartment
Three young men assaulted two people in an apartment in Stockholm on Maundy Thursday evening.
In connection with this, the perpetrators tried to steal things from the apartment.
A police hunt is now underway for the men, who disappeared on foot.
The police are investigating the incident as attempted aggravated robbery.
Protests in Paris – dead rats thrown at city hall
Protests in Paris for the eleventh day in a row Photo: Michael Euler/AP
New large demonstrations are taking place in France against President Macron’s pension reform.
Over half a million people have taken to the streets, write Le Figaro and quotes the country’s interior minister.
According to the CGT union, there are as many as two million.
The protesters have blocked roads, train stations and airports.
In Paris, 31 people have been arrested and 77 police officers have been injured, of which 13 have been taken to hospital, according to the police.
Several fires have been started. Among other things, the marquis was set on fire at La Rotonde, one of Emmanuel Macron’s favorite restaurants, writes Sky News.
In addition, dead rats are said to have been thrown at the town hall.
The police fired tear gas at the protesters.
Murder suspicion weakened after woman found dead
A dead woman was found in a wooded area in Filipstad on Tuesday.
How the woman ended up there has become a mystery to the police and a preliminary investigation into murder was launched.
But as the matter has been investigated, the suspicion of murder has weakened.
“According to the preliminary autopsy report, nothing has emerged to suggest that another person caused the death,” the police write on their website.
Instead, the police believe it was an accident. But the preliminary investigation will continue until the coroner has made a final statement.
SD wants to remove contributions to work against racism
The Sweden Democrats’ migration policy spokesperson Ludvig Aspling. Photo: Christine Olsson/TT
The Sweden Democrats want to remove contributions to the work against racism and discrimination, reports TV4 Nyheterna with reference to internal documents from the Government Office that the channel has seen.
– We do not have huge problems with discrimination and racism in Sweden. This is a problem that is talked about a lot in the media, says Ludvig Aspling, migration policy spokesperson for the Sweden Democrats.
The document states that, among other things, SD wants to shut down the Institute for Human Rights, reports the channel.
The party believes that the institute’s role is superfluous “since in Sweden there are already many other efforts that ultimately protect human rights” and gives examples of bands other than the court system, JK, JO and others.
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Hello!
Now that there are a lot of traffic controls after the roads in Easter, I came to think about this wheel surfing thing…
You are not allowed to hold your mobile phone when driving, for example, a moped, car, truck, tractor, but what about a rider who does?
Because a rider on a horse following a road counts as a vehicle?
Shouldn’t that also apply to them?
Lars
Hey Lars! Cool question. According to the traffic regulation you may not use your mobile phone or other communication equipment if you hold it in your hand while driving a motor vehicle.
And a horse is hardly a motorized vehicle. So it seems to be ok, by law, to steer surf (rein surf?) on horseback.
In your article about the e4 being closed, the information box from the Swedish Transport Administration is completely wrong. The dates do not match at all, one week is wrong in time. The Easter weekend is April 5-10.
S
Hello! That’s right, the dates didn’t match. We have corrected it now. Thanks for your point and Happy Easter!
Freezing rain? In Sweden we usually say freezing rain and not a direct translation, right? Speaking of news article about Montreal.
Tarragon
Hi Tarragon! It’s actually not quite the same thing, according to SMHI. Freezing rain is raindrops that maintain a temperature below zero degrees. Freezing rain is rain over cold ground. The drops are thus warmer than zero degrees, while the ground is colder than zero. Here on SMHI’s website you can read more.
How many have been shot this year?
Now there were two more.
Ugh
Hey Uff!
There have been a total of 85 shootings and seven shooting deaths through March 31 of this year. The police’s latest statistics show that the number of shootings in Sweden.
It may happen that the latest shootings are not visible in the statistics yet!
is there no one to respond to Turkey’s drivel that Sweden and in that case the Swedes are Nazis
wondering
Hello! Tobias Billström, the foreign minister, was asked about it by an SR reporter yesterday but wanted to comment only when he had looked more closely at what his Turkish colleague had said. We will see if anything else comes from him or any other minister.
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