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Major credit cards are widely accepted, but cheques are not. This mailbox is monitored regularly and a duty officer will return emergency calls. Embassy of Ireland Hovslagargatan 5 48 Stockholm Sweden. You should check any exclusions and, in particular, that your policy covers you for the activities you want to undertake.

Travel Advice A-Z list of countries Sweden. Fri, 19 Apr BST. This includes Ireland. Further details below. There are a limited number of direct flights between Ireland and Sweden.

Where possible, the Embassy advises that anyone travelling between Ireland and Sweden travel on a direct connection. Anyone travelling indirectly , and transiting through another jurisdiction is advised to familiarise themselves with the requirements for testing etc.

For the vaccination certificates, at least two weeks must have passed since the first last dose was administered. The vaccine must be either one of the vaccines approved by the European Medicines Agency EMA or one of the ones that has received emergency use authorisation from the WHO Certificates equivalent to the EU DCC are acceptable as long as the relevant information is included. Please see the website of the Public Health Agency of Sweden for further details here.

The following information must appear on the certificate in order for it to be valid: The name and date of birth of the person who has been tested Date and time when the test was taken Disease or infectious agent, COVID SARS-CoV-2 or one of its variants The type of test that has been performed.

In addition, the information in the certificate must be provided in Swedish, English, Norwegian, Danish or French. More information is available here. Exemptions: There is an exemption to the test, vaccine or recovery requirement for foreigners who live in Sweden according to the Swedish Population Registry, or who live in Sweden with a valid residence permit, residence right or residence status.

As proof of residence, you can request an extract from the population register through Skatteverket here. The decision is currently in effect until 30 November These can be found here Rec ommendations after entry to Sweden Anyone arriving into Sweden is expected to follow the advice of the Swedish Public Health Agency.

Recommendations for everyone in Sweden Everyone staying and living in Sweden must follow the general infection control guidelines and recommendations. This ban is valid until 31 January However it does now apply to the UK.

This ban does not apply to Irish passport holders. The ban also does not apply if you are a permanent resident or hold a residence permit in Sweden or another EU country, or if you have a national visa in Sweden. For questions about the entry restrictions to Sweden, contact the Swedish Police on The recommendation to stay at home if you have symptoms that could be signs of a respiratory tract infection applies to everyone, including those who are vaccinated and regardless of age.

Read more about the testing recommendations here. A corollary is that if an attack would be directed toward an EU or Nordic country, Sweden would provide help, including military support, to this country as well. Even if one can dwell at length on the utterly contradictory relationship of this doctrine and the former policy of strict non-alignment and neutrality, suffice it here to say that the Swedish government now realizes that any conflict in the Baltic Sea region would be impossible to dodge, and that such a conflict would inevitably affect Sweden as well.

The MSB brochure does not cover this context, however. The need to stock up on water, food and means of heating is heavily underlined, and there is even a checklist of the basic needs for a family along these lines for a week of disruptions of government and societal services. This is basic prepper stuff and could have been the guidelines of a prepper community in Oklahoma in the s.

Christina Andersson of the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency MSB says the focus of the new booklet is not solely on the threat posed to Swedes by war but also climate change, terror attacks, pandemics and manipulation of information.

A survey by her agency last month showed that 59 per cent of Swedes are concerned about nuclear proliferation — up 23 percentage points from the previous year. Fears of IT hacking have grown 59 per cent expressing concern, up from 40 per cent , while nearly one in two Swedes 46 per cent fear a biological or chemical weapon attack, compared to 29 per cent in Please update your payment details to keep enjoying your Irish Times subscription.

What if war comes? Sweden reissues cold war emergency pamphlet Pack a small bag — booklet preps Swedes for war, terror attacks and pandemics Tue, Jan 16, , Derek Scally in Berlin. More from The Irish Times Health. Later, the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan also provided two grants to enhance constructed wetlands application in Pakistan.

I am now working as a Principal Scientist leading the Wastewater Treatment and Phytoremediation Group, and in charge of the Environmental Monitoring Laboratory, in devising low-cost, self-sustaining and environment-friendly technologies for the remediation of polluted soil and wastewater.

The Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources is concerned that Pakistan may run out of sufficient usable water by Next to extensive use of water, the discharge of wastewater into the environment is a main reason for the depletion of clean water resources in the country.

In Pakistan, the main reasons for this discharge are the high capital, maintenance, and operational costs of conventional wastewater treatment systems.

Therefore, there is a need to develop an indigenous low-cost and sustainable technology for wastewater treatment and its reuse. Floating Treatment Wetlands FTWs are nature-based solutions aimed to provide low-cost wastewater treatment options for communities. Indigenous wetland plants were selected to develop FTWs and a buoyant mat locally designed and fabricated, which was times less expensive than mats available on the international market.

It helps local public and private organizations to treat their wastewater cost-effectively and sustainably, ultimately reducing soil and water pollution and improving the health of the people of Pakistan.