A small report from Sweden, apparently outside of the disaster region Sweden was hit hardest, 60 dead confirmed, 3500 missing, presumed dead. This in a country with a population of nine miliion. New years day was official day of mourning, luckily non of my near and dear were in the region. Scandinavia has been hit hard and lots of money has been collected, + $30 Milions in a week in sweden alone.

Most of the injured persons have returned home even tough it took a while to organize the transport using air transport regular passengerliners and converted MD-80s to carry stretchers that have to fuel up 3 times on the way.

The media focus has been on Thailand mainly because it there were a lot of swedish tourists there. The aid efforts is mainly sent to Sri Lanka and Sumatra wich were hit the hardest.