the Danes are welcome in Sweden.
But they must follow the country’s guidelines in connection with coronakrisen. It strikes an angry foreign minister on Tuesday firmly.
Ann Linde langer especially strongly after the Danish tourists for their behavior in restaurants in Sweden.
While Denmark still does not shut down the swedes in, danes throughout the crisis, been able to run a trip across the Strait to the neighboring country of Sweden. An option, as many have availed themselves of to visit the restaurants when they were closed at home.
Now rebukes secretary Ann Linde in an interview with Dagens Nyheter, however, the Danish tourists who continue to visit the country
– If they must come here, it requires that they follow the rules. We get a great many emails that people come from Denmark, and that they do not respect the social distance and moves tables together in restaurants and everything, she says.
The Danish tourists are however still welcome to visit Sweden, stresses the 58-year-old minister.
– We consider it not as dangerous, that people come from other countries in relation to the spread of infection. Not as long as they comply with the rules, says Ann Linde.
Sweden’s foreign minister said on Sunday that she believes that the coronakrisen and the continued isolation of Sweden can damage the relationship between the nordic countries.
she said also to the newspaper “Dagens Nyheter”.
– I have a genuine anxiety for, she says.
Denmark, Norway and Iceland, Monday will open each other’s borders, but Sweden will not be covered. It is done with reference to the many infected and dead with the coronavirus in Sweden. Norway does, however, permit travel to the Swedish island of Gotland.
– They must make the decision they think is important in order to protect their fellow citizens. The fact is that they have a much milder outbreak than what we have had. We have explained to them that we have had a very regional development, says Linde, and continues:
– In border areas, not see it at all as in Stockholm. You can see that in Copenhagen there are significantly more dead and infected than in Skåne.
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