The Swedish government plans to spend an additional 2.2 billion Swedish krona ($226 million US) on training for 10,000 careworkers for the elderly.
This comes as Sweden, which controversially resisted a full lockdown, has seen the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus rise to 27,272 while its death toll reached 3,313, according to the latest figures compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Over half of the deaths, as of last week, had occurred in care homes.
