Daily border crossings into Denmark are much higher. Norway and Sweden share a nearly unused border with Finland yes. Have you looked at maps that show population density? No one is worried about CoVid in the far north of either Sweden or Norway and virtually no one comes or goes into Norway or Sweden from Finland.
Neither Norway nor Sweden has many or any cases in those latitudes and near the border of Finland (which itself has very limited movement across its borders expect transit through airports by Aeroflot and a few others). Take a look at the map below - look where the population in Sweden actually lives.
That's why I also included St Petersburg in the discussion. Finland hooks up to Russia and Russia only. Russia does not have open borders into Europe and many geographers would not call Russia "Europe" (and Russians themselves would agree - they like the term Eurasia for their continental situation).
Europe is a cultural construct, not a geographical one. Unlike all the other continental designation, there are no firm geological boundaries to Europe and Asia. And Finland is closed off from the rest of Europe (if it's Europe and not Eurasia) by Russia and always will be. Finns also do not speak an Indo-European language - and do not consider themselves "European" by that standard.
Population density map of Sweden : europe
As you can probably guess, the deaths are mostly occurring in the red areas.
Interestingly, Finland is the least densely populated nation in Europe and so far only about 210 deaths there (no where near its border with Norway).
What I was trying to refer to is that trucks, trains, etc go from the rest of Europe (which has been hit very hard by this pandemic) to Denmark, so we'd expect (and do find) more cases than in Norway. Having water between the major CoVid pumps and one's own land is helpful. So Sweden thought it would have a different course.
It did not. So, since we've now established that there's no high CoVid rate in Northern Sweden - again, the question, is why is it so much higher?
They didn't shut schools, businesses or have any travel restrictions. We await antibody testing for their population, but I'm guessing we'll find that cryptic transmission occurred all over the place and that as many as 40% of Swedes will test positive for CoVid Ab by August. Including the children.
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