Coronavirus infection rate in London similar to Stockholm – despite Sweden’s lockdown snub, study suggests

Government data suggest virus equally prevalent in both cities as study criticises ‘tardy’ UK lockdown

The same proportion of people in London were infected with coronavirus in April as in Stockholm — where authorities opted for a herd immunity strategy, according to a new study.

Antibody testing regimes from both the UK and Swedish governments suggested that 17 per cent of the population in both cities had contracted Covid-19 in April, the paper published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine highlights.

The authors stated that the UK — where Boris Johnson admitted one main point of debate was whether to “take it on the chin” — had been “tardy” in imposing a lockdown.