Sweden is under fire for not implementing a lockdown as the country's death toll climbs, making it the tenth highest in the world per capita.
But a Kiwi physiotherapist living in Malmö, at the bottom of Sweden, has leapt to the country's defence and calls their approach to the pandemic "bold".
Luke Burgess, originally from Whanganui, says the Scandanavian country has continued to operate openly despite COVID-19.
"It's crazy because when you go outside the house here, it's no different because all the restaurants, all the cafes are still open.
"The approach Sweden is taking is fairly bold but no one knows what's going to work best do they."
He says 85 percent of his regular clients are sticking with their bookings and still coming in and acting normal.
Sweden's Chief of Epidemiology Anders Tegnell says it's the same all over the country because the Government's strategy is to trust its people.
"It's the tradition of how we work with communicable disease control in Sweden," Tegnell says.
"It works by giving the individual a lot of responsibility, information to understand and know what needs to be done and let themselves decide on how to do it."
But compared to Sweden's neighbours, their strategy is raising questions.
Sweden's death rate per 100,000 people is 27.2 compared to neighbour Denmark where it's three times lower, and in Finland and Norway it's more than six times lower.
While it is still much better than the United Kingdom, it's 66 times higher than New Zealand's.
Burgess is staying safe himself, in part because he can run his business virtually from home with video consultations, even to former clients in Britain.
"They're out running and there's no access to physio over there in the UK so it's been quite handy to be able to work from home but also for people to be able to touch base when they need to. "
While Sweden's lack of lockdown has made his life easier, New Zealand's lockdown has still had an impact on Burgess.
"Literally as the lockdown was coming into place, my grandma passed away. If I was to go back to NZ, that would have been very difficult.
"I hadn't made the decision but in the end, it was an easy one because it was impossible."
He's hoping to be back for Christmas to be with his family, and to finally pay his respects to his grandma.
