Anders Tegnell: 'COVID Face Masks are pointless', claims Sweden's chief epidemiologist

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Published by: AFR on 30 Jul 2020
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London | Go-it-alone Sweden has again styled itself as a global outlier in confronting the COVID-19 pandemic, with the country's chief epidemiologist Anders Tegnell saying face masks are pointless, even on public transport. Dr Tegnell, the author of Sweden's controversial lockdown-lite strategy

this week welcomed a decline in new cases and deaths as he continued to champion the country's largely voluntary approach to social distancing.

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