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And compare with France which had one the strictest locked down policy, hard restrictions, covid pass, etc. https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...

They have the same numbers...

Fun fact: Norway was one of the only country in Europe to have strict closed border. https://www.regjeringen.no/en/aktuelt/stricter-border-contro...

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Because both Norway and Denmark closed their borders, Sweden was as a result also closed. A key point when the danish side reopened was that the Sweden city Malmö on the Swedish side had lower infection rates than Copenhagen on the Danish side.

Both Denmark and Norway later issued rules that allowed Swedes to cross between the nations if they lived in low infection rate parts of Sweden. It was mostly people from Stockholm that could not pass.

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