Coronavirus: Sweden reports over 100 deaths from COVID-19 in a day

Stockholm: Sweden on Tuesday reported another 114 deaths from the new coronavirus, bringing the total to 591 in a country that has adopted a softer approach to containing the spread of the disease.

Sweden's Public Health Agency said it had recorded a total of 7,693 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country of around 10 million people, adding that some of the newly recorded deaths were due to revised figures from previous days.