Denmark and Norway removed border controls between the two countries but excluded neighboring Sweden, where the Covid-19 mortality rate was high.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced on May 29 that it will lift restrictions on entry with Norwegian, Iceland and German citizens from June 15.

"Denmark and Sweden have a close relationship and continue this relationship in the future," Frederiksen said.

Frederiksen, who issued the Danish blockade on March 11, hopes to find a solution to allow travel between Denmark and certain areas of Sweden.

Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg also announced yesterday that Norway will only accept Danish citizens at this time, but will discuss with Sweden, Finland and Iceland to allow citizens to enter in the near future.

Solberg said he had discussed twice with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven but that Norway finally signed a bilateral agreement with Denmark because "we have a similar infection situation, and the situation in Sweden is different."

"It is difficult to find a solution for Sweden, but there are also areas in Sweden that have a low infection rate where we can find a solution," she said.

The decision of Denmark and Norway to exclude Sweden from the Nordic "" moving round "was a blow to Stockholm.

Anders Tegnell, Sweden's leading epidemiologist who proposed the country's Covid-19 countermeasures, said the dialogue between neighboring Nordic countries was "continuing".

Sweden applies a policy of prevention of Covid-19 voluntarily.

The poll found that most Swedes supported the government's strategy, following less coercive measures, in stark contrast to the mandatory blockade situation in many countries, including Norway and Denmark.

However, Tegnell's policy, which aims to slow the spread of Covid-19 so that the health system has enough time to cope, has been heavily criticized by some Swedish experts.

Sweden reported 4,350 deaths due to Covid-19, or 419 people per million inhabitants, many times more than Norway at 44, Denmark at 98 and Finland at 57. However, the death rate of

Covid-19 appears in 212 countries and territories, causing more than 6 million people to be infected and more than 366,000 to die.