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A round-up of the main headlines in Sweden on the 1st October 2026. You can hear more reports on our homepage www.radiosweden.se, or in the app Sveriges Radio. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. Presented and produced by Dave Russell 

A round-up of the main headlines in Sweden on the 30th September 2026. You can hear more reports on our homepage www.radiosweden.se, or in the app Sveriges Radio. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. Produced and presented by Dave Russell 

Taste and smell loss are thought to be two of the most common symptoms of coronavirus, but some of the least understood, persisting long after the virus has gone. Scientists all over the world are racing to find out why Covid-19 is attacking these senses, and what this might teac ...  Show more

Imagine if your morning cup of coffee one day smelled like rotting garbage. Or, if your favorite comfort food had no taste at all. For some COVID long haulers, this is their new reality. What causes these distortions in smell and taste in the first place? And, what treatment opti ...  Show more

For Tejal Rao, a restaurant critic for The Times, a sense of smell is crucial to what she does. After she contracted the coronavirus, it disappeared. It felt almost instant.

“If you’re not used to it, you don’t know what’s going on,” she said. “It’s almost like wearing a ...

Many people around the world have lost their sense of smell this past year due to COVID-19. Before the pandemic, scientists had already begun to gain a deeper understanding of how sophisticated our sense of smell is and how it is intertwined with our mental and physical health. N ...  Show more