Greta Thunberg takes climate strike online amid rising COVID-19 cases in Sweden

On Friday, October 30, teen climate activist Greta Thunberg said that she will stop her regular protest outside Sweden’s parliament owing to a surge in COVID-19 cases across the country. While taking to Twitter, the 17-year-old global icon informed that she is returning to campaigning online with the hashtag #ClimateStrikeOnline.

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Since August 2018, Thunberg has been skipping school on Fridays to stand outside the Swedish parliament in Stockholm to demand government action on climate change. Back in March, she had urged activists to protests online as the pandemic started building. In September, she returned to her place outside Swedish parliament. 

#ClimateStrikeOnline 

However, as Sweden reported 2,820 new coronavirus cases on October 28, the highest since the pandemic began, the 17-year-old environmentalist urged people to stay safe and protest online. Greta even retweeted posts from her fellow student activists who have been protesting and raising awareness online amid the pandemic. 

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Meanwhile, in a bid to spread awareness, the climate activist has been urging world leaders to take steps and "face climate change". Greta has been urging leaders to build a new system and tear apart the old deals in order to secure a change in beating climate change. The Swedish activist has demanded to halt all investment in fossil fuel exploration and extraction. She even asked leaders to establish annual binding carbon budgets based on the current best available science. 

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