Testing was discouraged due to lack of reagents. They wanted to make sure what little reagents they had were used for hospitalized people and the elderly. There

Testing was discouraged due to lack of reagents. They wanted to make sure what little reagents they had were used for hospitalized people and the elderly. There simply was not enough reagents in Sweden to do contact tracing at any useful scale, so we stopped doing that when we started to get too many cases. That is what I heard from people I know who work at or close to the labs doing the testing.