In an interview on Sky News, Prime Minister Scott Morrison claimed Sweden has seen 20 times the number of COVID-19 deaths than Australia. CoronaCheck digs into the numbers.
deaths. While Sweden's death count is much higher than Australia's, it is only seven times the number of deaths seen in Australia.of deaths when comparing the two nations, a comparison of theOn those figures, Sweden's rate of deaths per million people is 576.62 compared with Australia’s rate of 34.37. That means the Nordic nation has suffered a death rate more than 16 times that of Australia.
Comments responding to Mr Kelly’s post suggest the red on the uniform marked the officers as part of the "Strong Cities Network", a coalition of cities working against violent extremism. "When officers from PORT are responding in large numbers at crowded events, coloured patches including red, blue and green alongside numbers on uniforms are used to clearly identify them from general duties police."
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