Sweden's COVID-19 cases top 10,000

onfirmed cases of COVID-19 in Sweden surpassed 10,000 as the country's Public Health Agency announced on Saturday that 10,151 cases have been registered and 887 have died.

The Swedish agency announced at a press conference that over the last 24 hours, there has been an increase of 17 deaths, while emphasizing that since it is a weekend, there may be some backlog in the number of reported cases. Of the 887 dead, 516 are men and 371 are women.