Massive experiment in N. Sweden to examine how COVID-19 spreads on campus


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  • Tuesday, 01 Sep 2020

STOCKHOLM, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Umea University in northern Sweden launched on Monday a mass testing experiment with the aim of finding out whether on-campus teaching increases the COVID-19 contamination rate.

"It is a large, reality-based experiment," Anders Johansson, a researcher on infectious diseases at Umea University, told Swedish Television on Monday.

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