The comparatively small fall in Swedish GDP in Q1 appears to owe as much to a strong January and February as Sweden’s lighter-touch lockdown. Accordingly, today’s data underplay the scale of the damage wreaked by Covid-19 and the degree of policy support required to underpin the recovery.
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