COVID-19 roundup: Northern Siberia residents flout lockdown; antibody testing in Sweden

A picture taken on November 29, 2018 shows a monument to the Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin on the main square of the eastern Siberian city of Yakutsk. (Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images)
“Calculate how many people you’ve had contact with over the past five days. Are you ready to forgive yourself if one of them does not survive a coronavirus infection? Was the reason you left home really worth it?”

With COVID-19 cases rising every day over the last two weeks in this part of northeastern Russia, regional Governor Aisen Nikolaev made a plea to residents on Thursday to stop flouting social and physical distancing directives. 

Sweden is ramping up its COVID-19 diagnostic strategy to include antibody testing… Continue reading this Arctic roundup in our interactive map. (Mobile version available here)

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