Radio Sweden Weekly: Handful of regions reach final phase of vaccine program

Värmland is doing it. So is Stockholm along with Kalmar and Jönköping, too. Those regions have started phase four, the final stage of Sweden's vaccination program.

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It's when the general public can begin booking their Covid-19 vaccine. We take a closer look at the country's vaccine roll out - how far it's come and how much longer it has to go.

Also: foreign-born people living in Sweden are lagging behind when it comes to getting immunized against Covid-19. Hear why that might be and what's being done to reverse it.

Plus, what's it like to grow old in Sweden, especially if you were born somewhere else? It's a question Radio Sweden has asked this week in a series of reports about the financial challenges of aging here.

Frank Radosevich/producer and presenter
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