Stockholm schools send pupils home amid warnings of overstretched intensive care wards due to Covid-19

Schools in Stockholm

Schools in Stockholm will send home all pupils aged 14-16 for remote learning until 2021 in a bid to hold back a second wave of coronavirus. The Swedish capital had issued a call for help over its strained intensive care capacity

“We must greatly reduce our contacts, so unfortunately I am forced to recommend that [Stockholm region] municipalities from Monday end teaching on site for students in high school,” Stockholm’s disease control officer Maria Rotzen Ostlund said on Friday.

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