{"id":987524793,"date":"2020-07-15T03:39:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T02:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/news\/health-system-measures-in-sweden-covid-19-july-2020\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:43:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:43:08","slug":"health-system-measures-in-sweden-covid-19-july-2020","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/news\/health-system-measures-in-sweden-covid-19-july-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Health system measures in Sweden &#8211; COVID-19 &#8211; July 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The health system measures put into place in Sweden to contain the spread of COVID-19 are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; 11 May: New measures to strengthen health elderly care (SEK 5bn).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; 7 May: Extended reimbursement for the first day of sickness (cost SEK 3.2bn), continued suspension of medical certificate requirement for the first 14 days of leave (cost SEK 1.1bn).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The central government will compensate municipalities and regions for extraordinary measures and extra costs in health and medical care associated with the COVID-19 virus. On 2 April, the amount was raised to SEK 3bn from SEK 2bn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; On 2 April, the government announced that grants to municipalities and regions will increase by SEK 20bn in 2020, up from SEK 5bn previously planned, of which SEK 12.5bn will be permanent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; From 11 March until 11 May, sickness benefit will be paid for the first day of sickness.<\/p>\n<p>The published information can be found&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oecd.org\/coronavirus\/country-policy-tracker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The health system measures put into place in Sweden to contain the spread of COVID-19 are: &#8211; 11 May: New measures to strengthen health elderly care (SEK 5bn). &#8211; 7 May: Extended reimbursement for the first day of sickness (cost SEK 3.2bn), continued suspension of medical certificate requirement for the first 14 days of leave&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[123,124,129,132,133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987524793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987524793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987524793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987524793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}