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Sweden Targets New Law Enabling Lockdowns From Early January
Benches taped off inside a shopping center in Uppsala, Sweden.
Photographer: Henrik Montgomery/AFP/Getty Images
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Sweden’s government hopes to have the power to impose lockdowns from Jan. 10, if a bill submitted on Monday passes parliament.
The temporary laws, if enacted, will give authorities the legal clout to shut down businesses and fine those infringing the restrictions put in place to slow the spread of the virus, according to the Minister of Health and Social Affairs Lena Hallengren.