It is important to have a policy that can be sustained over a longer period, meaning staying home if you are sick, which is our message, locking people up at home won't work in the longer term. Anders Tegnell More Quotes by Anders Tegnell More Quotes From Anders Tegnell It is basically impossible to keep track of all travel flows. Anders Tegnell We have to remember that in the world around us, most likely, this virus will keep on transmitting, so we need to keep a high level of preparedness in place. It’s not going to be an easy life. Anders Tegnell It is very dangerous to believe face masks would change the game when it comes to Covid-19, face masks can be a complement to other things when other things are safely in place. But to start with having face masks and then think you can crowd your buses or your shopping malls -- that's definitely a mistake. Anders Tegnell If we were to run into the same disease, knowing exactly what we know about it today, I think we would end up doing something in between what Sweden did and what the rest of the world has done, yes, I think we could have done better in what we did in Sweden, clearly. Anders Tegnell Maybe we will find this out now that people have started removing measures, one at a time, and then maybe we will get some kind of information on what, in addition to what we did, we could do without adopting a total lockdown. Anders Tegnell It is a little bit lower (than expected) but not remarkably lower, maybe one or a couple of percent, it squares pretty well with the models we have. Anders Tegnell In major parts of Sweden, around Stockholm, we have reached a plateau( in new cases) and we're already seein the effect of herd immunity and in a few weeks' time we'll see even more of the effects of that. Anders Tegnell Locking people up at home won't work in the longer term, sooner or later people are going to go out anyway. Anders Tegnell