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Swedish Foreign Minister Defends COVID-19 Response

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   Sweden's foreign minister has defended the nation's response to the
   COVID-19 global pandemic after a recent "week-by-week measurement of
   mortality" that shows the Scandinavian country as having one of the
   highest rates in the world.

   The website Ourworldindata.org reported that for seven days between May
   12 and 19, Sweden reported, on average, 6.25 COVID-19 deaths per
   million per day. That was the highest in Europe.

   At a news conference in Stockholm Tuesday, Foreign Minister Ann Linde
   called those numbers "a concern" and "tragic," but she said Sweden did
   not quickly get high mortality rates as some other countries did, nor
   would it get quickly, radically, low numbers.

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