The art of being governed: the implementation of Covid-19 policies in Swedish on-license alcohol service

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Table 1. Swedish Covid-19 policies for licensed venues. (Based on Olofsson and Vilhelmsson 2022; Sweden Public Health Agency 2020b, 2020a, 2021; Swedish Government 2020).

Date	Policy decrees
2020–03–24	Only table serving; only seated patrons; information signs; (undefined) safety distance of gatherings of patrons.
2020–06–17	Enacting of the law 2020:527 for temporary infection control measures in service venues; specification of safe distance to minimum 1 meter and the municipal control agencies’ responsibility for auditing observance of the law.
2020–06–29	Public Health Administration’s advice for observing the law 2020:527, including suggestions for posting information signs and re-arranging the venue to promote patron observance of safety distance etc.
2020–11–20	No serving of alcohol after 22:00; groups of patrons may not exceed 8 people.
2020–12–24	No serving of alcohol after 20:00; groups of patrons may not exceed 4 people.
2021–03–01	Venue to be vacated after 20:30.
2021–06–01^a	No serving of alcohol after 22:00; premises vacated 22:30.
2021–07–01^a	No limits on patron companies; no time-limits on operation hours or alcohol serving.
2021–09-29^a	All relevant restrictions reversed.

^aEnacted after the fieldwork.

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