MEASURES TO DEAL WITH THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE PANDEMIC in Sweden (e.g. government agencies, companies and municipalities) must ensure that they take appropriate measures to avoid the Public Health Agency spread of infection of Sweden has provided based on the recomgeneral advice to prevent mendations from the the spread of infection Public Health Agency of Sweden and infectious diseases doctors. The Public Health Agency of Sweden has provided general advice on how organisations can act to prevent the spread of infection, for example by displaying information for visitors, marking distances on the floor and modifying physical areas, or otherwise creating space to avoid crowding. The Public Health Agency of Sweden has also provided general advice aimed at the public at large. This advice is based on the premise that everybody has a responsibility to prevent the spread of Covid-19. In order to limit the spread of infection, everybody should, inter alia, be aware of their hand hygiene, maintain a distance from one another both indoors and outdoors in places where people gather, and refrain from participating in large social gatherings and events. To protect others from infection, anyone who knows they are infected or who has symptoms of Covid-19 should stay at home and avoid physical contact with others. Of particular interest to the Parliamentary Ombudsmen’s investigations is the additional general advice the Public Health Agency of Sweden has also provided to the Prison and Probation Service, the Swedish Migration Agency and the National Board of Institutional Care. In order to avoid the spread of Covid-19, it follows that these agencies should have routines in their management systems on how their respective organisation will pre- 2 vent the spread of infection. Furthermore, these agencies should regularly carry out risk assessments based on recommendations from the Public Health Agency of Sweden and infectious diseases doctors, as well as produce instructions for how staff and people deprived of their liberty can prevent the spread of infection. – 13 –