Swedish Trailways

There may be a worldwide pandemic going on, but apparently, Sweden never got the memo. With over 800 deaths, Sweden  "leads" among Scandinavian countries, but life must go on-and that includes moving refugees, migrants, and other assorted global thrill-seekers from town to town. The Swedish-language website, Fria Tider (Free Times), has the happy report. Translation by Fousesquawk.

https://www.friatider.se/migrationsverket-kor-omkring-flyktingar-mitt-i-coronakrisen

Migration Board drives "refugees" around in the middle of the Corona crisis
Published 10 April 2020 10:46 am

Domestic:

Public health authorities have said that we should avoid "unnecessary trips" due to the Corona virus. The Migration Board. continues, however, to drive so-called refugees between their residences, according to several media sources: Immigrants are not tested for covid-19 before being driven around the country.

Even though trips throughout the country can spread the deadly  Corona virus, the Migration Board continues to move asylum-seekers between their residences.

In the middle of the Corona virus, authorities have moved immigrants to both Junsele and Mellansel in Västernorrland, according to Swedish Public Television (SVT).

"A busload of asylum-seekers rolls on mindlessly, run by both the Migration Board and the municipality of Sollefteå," writes Allehanda.se. 

The bus trips are done without the immigrants being tested for covid-19.

It is said such tests can only be done by health services. However, nobody who shows signs of symptoms of the virus is moved. However, it has been established that not all have symptoms, or get them later, but can still be infected.

According to the Migration Board, the aim is that, among others, the immigrants get apartments and avoid collective residences. But it is also a fact that asylum-seekers often simply have to change residences since they are unable to obtain something themselves.

It still occurs that people need to move between residences also during this period and under prevailing conditions. "What we are doing is both minimizing the number of movements and that we only move symptom-free people", says Jennie Sörman, who is responsible for reception and living at the Migration Board, to SVT.