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Follow The Sun The Sun News Corp Services TOP All Football ‘WE’RE DOING FINE’ Sweden is beating coronavirus because of widespread immunity after refusing to lock down, country claims SWEDEN'S health experts have claimed they are beating coronavirus because of immunity after refusing to go into lockdown.
That is more than double of France - recording 349 cases per 100,000.
However, Dr Tegnell claims the higher level of cases indicates a form of immunity among the population by people carrying antibodies for Covid-19.
Dr Tegnell told the Unherd website last month: "What we are seeing now in Sweden is a rapid decline in the number of cases, and of course some sort of immunity must be responsible for that since nothing else has changed."
A study published last week by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm people who test negative for antibodies may still have a high level of immunity.
Dr Tegnell said: "I think it is likely that such outbreaks will be easier to control in Sweden because there is immunity among the population."
Professor Marcus Buggert, an immunologist at the institute, said: "T-cells are a type of white blood cells that are specialised in recognising virus-infected cells.
"Our results indicate that roughly twice as many people have developed T-cell immunity compared with those who we can detect antibodies in."
Earlier this month, the pointed out that Sweden's antibody rate is fairly similar to the UK's.