Alexandra Pascalidou is a Greek-Swedish columnist, television hostess, and author. She is also a frequent lecturer, discussion leader, and human rights activist.
Sanna Viktoria Nielsen is a Swedish singer and television presenter. On her seventh attempt, she won Melodifestivalen in 2014 with the song "Undo" and so represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark, finishing in 3rd place overall. Sanna was one of the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 commentators for Sweden and hosted Melodifestivalen 2015 along with comedian Robin Paulsson. She was announced as the new presenter for the sing-along show Allsång på Skansen for the summer of 2016. She hosted Eurovision The Party at the Tele2 Arena for the Eurovision Song Contest 2016.
Fredrik Laurin is a Swedish journalist and special projects editor at Swedish Public Television, SVT.
Joachim Dyfvermark is a Swedish investigative reporter/producer working for the current affairs program Uppdrag granskning broadcast on Sveriges Television.
Bosse Lindquist is a Swedish radio and TV producer and writer. Since 2012, he directs investigative documentaries for Swedish Television's documentary department. From 2007 to 2009, Lindquist was head of the national radio broadcaster Swedish Radio’s documentary department. He was Ander Visiting Professor of Global Media Studies at Karlstad University from 2012 to 2013. He has been a non-fiction author and director of documentaries since 1988.
Elisabet Höglund is a Swedish author and political journalist, working in Swedish television and radio as a reporter. She started her career at SVT, later becoming a freelance journalist. She has written a number of books including an autobiography, and has organised many exhibitions of her own paintings; she is also a former road bicycle racer. She competed in Let's Dance during 2009 on TV4, teaming up with professional dancer Tobias Karlsson. Höglund and Karlsson placed fourth in the competition.
Johannes Wahlström is a Swedish journalist and filmmaker.
Anne Ebba-Karin Lundberg is a Swedish television presenter and journalist. She has presented several shows on the Swedish television station SVT and she has won the Kristallen award three times in the category for "Best female presenter of the year". She has also won one season of På spåret.
Pernilla Månsson Colt, is a Swedish television presenter, producer, editor, and journalist.
Hertur Roland Ingemar Odlander, was a Swedish journalist who worked for SVT news on its news programmes Aktuellt and Rapport. Between 1975 and 1978 Odlander was the first ever Swedish foreign news reported stationed in Nairobi. From 1978 and until his death in 2014 Odlander was married to Christina Jutterström.
Hanna Lovisa Stjärne is a Swedish journalist and media executive. In September 2014 she was announced as the new CEO for Sveriges Television (SVT), succeeding the resigning CEO Eva Hamilton.
Anna Carolina Neurath is a Swedish journalist and writer. She specializes in writing business articles for the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. In 2016 her first work of fiction, Fartblinda, was published.
Anna Kristina Kappelin is a Swedish journalist and author residing in Rome, Italy. She is a foreign correspondent in Italy for SVT, and writes columns for Dagens Industri and Sydsvenska Dagbladet. She reports mainly for politics and sports in Italy. Kappelin has a Bachelor of Arts completed in film and theater history, sociology and culture communication at Lunds University. She also studied journalism at Journalisthögskolan in Gothenburg and Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna. She has had several books published in Italy.
Elsa Caroline "Annette" Kullenberg was a Swedish journalist and author.
Annika "Karolina" Virtanen Ramqvist is a prominent Swedish journalist and best-selling author.
Per Kristofer Sinding-Larsen is a Swedish journalist, television presenter and singer. He is most known for presenting the music show Studio Pop which was broadcast on SVT and a music reviewer for the culture show Kulturnyheterna also at SVT. He has also produced the two music documentaries Kent and Så nära får ingen gå – ett år med Kent about the music group Kent. Between 2007 and 2014 he founded and ran the web and TV project PSL for SVT. PSL did start again 2018 and cover the music scene in Sweden and around the world.
Anna Katarina Wennstam, is a Swedish journalist, author, debater, moderator and lecturer. She grew up in Gothenburg but today lives in Nacka. She has previously worked as a crime reporter for SVT, but resigned in 2007 to write and be a lecturer full-time. Wennstam has authored two books with documentary elements about rape and abuse of women. The books have created debate in Sweden about rape, abuse and sexual violence, as well as how female victims are treated in the courts. She also criticizes medias coverage of these kind of crimes in her books.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden is part of the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The virus was confirmed to have reached Sweden on 31 January 2020, when a woman returning from Wuhan tested positive. On 26 February, following outbreaks in Italy and in Iran, multiple travel-related clusters appeared in Sweden. Community transmission was confirmed on 9 March in the Stockholm Metropolitan Area. Since then, individuals in every län (county) have tested positive for COVID-19. The first death was reported on 11 March in Stockholm, a case of community transmission. However, it is believed that the virus could have reached Sweden as early as December 2019, when several individuals sought care for respiratory illness in Falun after contact with an individual with recent travel history to Wuhan.
The following is a timeline of minor events between January and mid-March in the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden.
Events in the year 2021 in Sweden.
