Sweden acted too slowly as pandemic hit, commission finds

FILE PHOTO: People wait outside a night club, which was turned into a mass vaccination center, to get a vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Stockholm, Sweden, April 16, 2021. Carl-Olof Zimmerman/TT News Agency/via REUTERS/File Photo

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's response to the spread of the new coronavirus was too slow and preparations to handle a pandemic insufficient, a commission investigating the country's pandemic response said on Friday.

"Sweden's handling of the pandemic has been marked by a slowness of response," the commission said in preliminary findings published on its website.