Tegnell’s successor to stop after four months 

Anders Lindblom, who succeeded Anders Tegnell as Sweden’s state epidemiologist on March 14th, is to step down on June 30th after just four months in the post, the Dagens Medicin newspaper has reported. 

The news comes after it emerged that the international post that the Public Health Agency had said Tegnell was leaving to take up turned out not to have been finalised. 

Sources at the World Health Organisation (WHO) said last month that Tegnell’s role coordinating international vaccine work had not yet been finalised. 

Christer Janson, the Public Health Agency’s press chief, told the TT newswire that the decision over Christer Janson’s employment was not related to the issues over Tegnell’s WHO post, and that Lindblom had always only been contracted to work until June 30th. 

Swedish employment watchdog launches probe into Centre Party 

The Swedish Work Environment Authority is to launch a probe into work conditions at the Centre Party’s national headquarters in Stockholm, the Aftonbladet newspaper has reported.

“This is about shortfalls in the organisation and social working conditions which have come out in the media,” Ulrika Scholander, head of the organisation’s inspections division, told the newspaper. 

Aftonbladet has previously reported that several people have been off work sick for long periods due to stressful working conditions.