"SWEDEN’S Prime Minister has been accused by of deliberately allowing the spread of the coronavirus.
Stefan Lofven was also told the policy of not going into lockdown, which has seen Swedes continue to go to bars, restaurants and shops, has "failed miserably".
Sweden has recorded 4,694 deaths and 45,133 Covid-19 infections in a population of 10 million, while neighbours Denmark, Norway and Finland - who imposed lockdowns - have seen much lower rates.
Ebba Busch-Thor, leader of the Christian Democrat party, blamed Sweden's strategy for some Covid-19 deaths, the Telegraph reports.
"What we can say about Sweden is that many of those who are mourning over those they have lost this spring are doing so because Sweden knowingly and deliberately allowed a large spread of the infection," she said.
Lofven himself backed he decision not to impose a lockdown and said the death rate was due to failures in the system of care for the elderly.
“There's no doubt that elderly care needs to be improved."
He said: "I think the strategy is the right one. But it has transpired that that very many people, in certain areas, have died in elderly care.
Jimmie Akesson, the leader of the populist Sweden Democrats, called on Tegnell to resign, in a newspaper article ahead of the debate.
“The strategy in Sweden was not to try to hold back the infection, but instead to try to limit it at the same time as protecting risk groups," Mr Akesson in the Dagens Nyheter newspaper.
"By that measure, it has failed miserably. Anders Tegnell should therefore resign.”
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