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A new case of community transmission has been confirmed in Sydney, Australia, breaking a 12-day streak of no community cases.

The case is a 45-year-old man who felt ill on Saturday and was tested yesterday.

Health officials in Sweden, which opted not to respond to the first wave of Covid-19 with a national lockdown, misjudged the power of the virus’s resurgence, the country’s prime minister has said, as independent commission criticised the country’s strategy.

“I think that most people in the profession didn’t see such a wave in front of them; they talked about different clusters,” the prime minister, Stefan Löfven, told the Swedish Aftonbladet newspaper on Tuesday.

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