Bucking the global trend, Swedish schools have stayed open throughout the pandemic even with relatively high cases of Covid-19. FRANCE 24’s Catherine Norris-Trent and James André report from Stockholm.

Unlike most children across Europe, Swedish students have not had to miss a single day of school due to the coronavirus.

The country’s public health authorities made the decision to keep schools open at the start of the outbreak and they stuck by this even when the death rate was ten times higher than in Sweden’s Nordic neighbours.