Sweden Coronavirus Regrets; Boris Johnson's Hong Kong Promise

Sweden Coronavirus Regrets; Boris Johnson's Hong Kong Promise | Europe In :60 | GZERO Media

Sweden's state epidemiologist has expressed regrets about not having tighter coronavirus controls. What's the reaction been in Sweden?

Well, the guy has been going somewhat back and forth over what he actually meant by that particular statement. But I think there's a general feeling, yes, we could have done things better that relates to testing and that relates to quite a number of other things. And there is a concern that as Europe is now opening up, Swedes are treated as slightly different, slightly more dangerous than people from other countries. There is concern over that.

Boris Johnson promised to open Britain for people fleeing Hong Kong. Will the UK actually see people resettle?

It relates to people that were given a special form of UK passport that so far has not given the right to move from Hong Kong to the UK. If there is a bad development in Hong Kong, he now opens up for them to be able to be free to move to the UK and settle down. Let's just hope that it doesn't come to that and that we can safeguard the rather special and free position of Hong Kong.

More from GZERO Media

Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk reacts next to Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. president Donald Trump during a campaign rally, at the site of the July assassination attempt against Trump, in Butler, Pennsylvania, U.S., October 5, 2024.
REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest person, has thrown his full weight behind former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

FILE PHOTO: Yahya Sinwar, Gaza Strip chief of the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement, waves to Palestinians during a rally to mark the annual al-Quds Day (Jerusalem Day), in Gaza, April 14, 2023.
REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/File Photo

Ever since 1,200 Israelis were brutally murdered by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, in southern Israel, the Jewish state has been on the hunt for the mastermind, the terrorist group’s leader, Yahya Sinwar.

Acting Director of the U.S. Secret Service Ronald Rowe Jr. speaks during a press conference as the FBI investigates what they said was an apparent assassination attempt in Florida on Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump, in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. September 16, 2024.
REUTERS/Marco Bello/File Photo
Doctors, paramedics, and medical students from various medical institutions are attending a protest against what they say is the rape and murder of a trainee doctor, inside the premises of R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, India, on August 12, 2024.
(Photo by Debajyoti Chakraborty/NurPhoto)

In August, the brutal rape and murder of a female medical resident in a Kolkata hospital set off aseries of protests by doctors and others who demanded a full investigation of the crime and stepped-up police protection in government-run hospitals.

Pro-Palestinian protesters rally for a cease-fire in Gaza during the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas in Dearborn, Michigan, on May 19, 2024.
REUTERS/Rebecca Cook

About 4 million people in the United States identify as Arab Americans, and they have a large presence in key swing states like Michigan and Pennsylvania. The war in Gaza looms large for them, with more than 80% in a recent poll saying it’s their top election issue. This is the latest in GZERO’s Bloc by Bloc voting demographics series.