The commission - set up by the government under pressure from parliament - said Sweden's broad policy was "fundamentally ...

As an initial matter, Sweden, like the other Nordics, was much less vulnerable than most countries to a respiratory pandemic that hit the elderly the hardest, because of its household structure.

Sweden’s softer approach to containing the new coronavirus was already an outlier in Europe and is coming under even more scrutiny as death rates leap ahead of its Nordic neighbours. As of Wednesday, ...