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At 3 p.m. the government and the Public Health Agency will hold a press briefing on the spread of covid-19.

Social Minister Jakob Forssmed, FHM’s director general Karin Tegmark Wisell and the National Board of Health and Welfare’s crisis preparedness manager Taha Alexandersson will participate in the press conference.

Sri Lanka closes the country’s schools because of bad air, reports TT.

The deteriorating air quality is due to extreme weather conditions, according to the authorities.

A storm in the Bay of Bengal has brought heavy downpours and winds that have caused polluted air from India to blow over the country.

The capital Colombo is covered by a thick layer of haze and smog, according to the news agency.

“These conditions can be seen in all parts of Sri Lanka and have a tendency to lead to health problems,” the government’s environmental and risk management agency said.

Just before eleven o’clock, a car drove off the road on the E45 at the height of Dorotea.

Three people are said to have been involved in the accident and all had to be taken to hospital by ambulance.

The extent of the damage is unclear

During the morning, the police were called to Näsby in Kristianstad due to a suspected serious crime.

Now the police announce that a dead person was found in the home.

The police have now opened a preliminary investigation into murder. A man has been arrested on probable cause on suspicion of murder.

According to Kristianstadsbladet A laundry room has been cordoned off in connection with the investigation.

Relatives have been notified.

The police do not want to go into more details about what happened at the scene.

During the morning, a car and a bus collided with each other in a roundabout in Luleå.

The police have no information about personal injuries. One person must have been in the car and several people must have been in the bus when the accident occurred.

According to Norrbottens-Kuriren there is limited accessibility at the site.

Social Services Minister Camilla Waltersson Grönvall is to meet Sweden’s Municipalities and Regions, SKR and unions to discuss the working environment at LSS residences and HVB homes, the government announces in a press release.

The reason is, among other things, the murder of an LSS resident in Enköping and alarms about substandard working conditions.

– It is not reasonable that prostitution and drug dealing are conducted at LSS residences and HVB homes and that the employees do not have the right to confiscate a phone by law. It is also not reasonable that an employee is not allowed to take a knife hidden in the room from the residents. We have to review this from the political side, says Camilla Waltersson Grönvall.

She also says that she will have regular meetings with SKR and trade unions.

– It is important that all parties take their responsibility so that the employees at LSS residences and HVB homes can feel secure in their jobs. No one should risk being murdered at work, says Camilla Waltersson Grönvall.

In those parts of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, major battles are taking place between Russian and Ukrainian soldiers, reports Financial Times.

The newspaper has been on the ground in Ukraine and talked to the Ukrainian soldier Konstantyn, who is in the middle of the city’s battles.

He says that Russian soldiers are shot “on a conveyor belt”.

– They are just meat for Putin. And Bakhmut is a meat grinder, says Konstantyn.

The Financial Times has also spoken to officer Volodymyr who described the situation in the city.

– Hell. Like hell, he says.

The man who was arrested on suspicion of the murder of 18-year-old Marua Ajouz is in custody, the Prosecutor’s Office announces.

She disappeared without a trace in Malmö in 2002. A few years later, parts of her body were found.

On Tuesday, a man, who had previously been with Marua Ajouz, was arrested on suspicion of the murder.

On Tuesday, Rachel Gordon captured unique images of rare Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds over the state of Wyoming.

The BBC has drawn attention to the images and the channel’s meteorologist Matt Taylor says it is one of the most amazing and epic examples of clouds he has seen.

– How the atmosphere, like waves in the ocean, moves and reacts to the environment around it. The air rises and falls over itself, he says.

The clouds form when a faster current of air moves above rising air from below.

Bassem Nasr, legal policy spokesperson for the Green Party, summons the national police chief Anders Thornberg to the justice committee, reports The Express.

The announcement comes after the newspaper’s disclosure of the tours surrounding Deputy National Police Chief Mats Löfving, who a year ago was reported to the police, among other things, for serious breach of peace. Löfving has also been criticized for having given Linda Staaf the top job at Noa despite her lack of experience.

Bassem Nasr now wants answers to questions.

– It is a messy situation. As long as it is not investigated, there is a risk that trust in the police will be damaged. It is in everyone’s interest to sort this out as soon as possible, he tells the newspaper.

Fuel prices continue downward on Friday, after a week of reductions, writes TT.

The diesel price is SEK 22:82 per litre, a decrease of 10 öre since Thursday and the lowest price since March 1 this year.

The petrol price is reduced by 25 öre and is now 18.29 kroner per liter at manned supermarkets. It is the third lowest price this year. The last time the petrol price was lower was on 16 January.