Travelers from Denmark are met by Swedish police in protective masks at the border control point at Hyllie station, as the Swedish government shut the border after a mutated strain of the coronavirus was discovered in Denmark, in Malmo, Sweden on Dec. 22, 2020. Johan Nilsson/TT News Agency via Reuters
STOCKHOLM—The new variant of coronavirus linked to a rapid rise in infections in Britain has been detected in Sweden after a traveler from the United Kingdom became ill and tested positive, the Swedish Health Agency said on Saturday.
Health Agency official Sara Byfors told a news conference the traveler had been isolating and that no further positive cases had so far been detected.
