Whitey Ford
03-27-2020, 03:02 AM
And I was fucking mad that the public libraries here are going to be closed for the next couple of weeks. But then coronavirus does us a solid. :nfl
Somalis Over-Represented Among Coronavirus Victims in Stockholm, as COVID-19 Reaches Blighted Areas
https://i.imgur.com/bkBJZr9.png
Members of the Somali community complained that the authorities' information about the spread of coronavirus was insufficient and came too late. To rectify this, materials in 15 languages are now being distributed.
The city of Stockholm has reported a rise in COVID-19 cases, noting that residents of so-called vulnerable areas are over-represented among the newly-infected.
At least six of the 15 who died from the coronavirus have a Somali background, national broadcaster SVT reported.
A local doctor suggested to the Expressen newspaper that the virus could have spread several weeks ago, during the Friday prayer at a local mosque.
“When [coronavirus] spread to Sweden, there was not so much information in Somali, and many continued living as usual,” doctor Jihan Mohamed, board member of the Swedish Somali Medical Association, told SVT.
Mohamed suggested crowded conditions as one of the explanations to the over-representation of COVID-19 cases among fellow Somalis.
“Many live in crammed quarters there. Several generations can live in the same apartment,” Mohamed suggested.
Somali imam Hussein Farah of Rinkeby's Islamic Cultural Centre suggested that the authorities' information on coronavirus in languages other than Swedish was insufficient and came too late. Mohamed Nuur, chairman of the Social Democrats in Tensta, called the lack of information “heartbreaking”.
https://sputniknews.com/europe/202003251078701431-somalis-over-represented-among-coronavirus-victims-in-stockholm-as-covid-19-reaches-blighted-areas/
Somalis Over-Represented Among Coronavirus Victims in Stockholm, as COVID-19 Reaches Blighted Areas
https://i.imgur.com/bkBJZr9.png
Members of the Somali community complained that the authorities' information about the spread of coronavirus was insufficient and came too late. To rectify this, materials in 15 languages are now being distributed.
The city of Stockholm has reported a rise in COVID-19 cases, noting that residents of so-called vulnerable areas are over-represented among the newly-infected.
At least six of the 15 who died from the coronavirus have a Somali background, national broadcaster SVT reported.
A local doctor suggested to the Expressen newspaper that the virus could have spread several weeks ago, during the Friday prayer at a local mosque.
“When [coronavirus] spread to Sweden, there was not so much information in Somali, and many continued living as usual,” doctor Jihan Mohamed, board member of the Swedish Somali Medical Association, told SVT.
Mohamed suggested crowded conditions as one of the explanations to the over-representation of COVID-19 cases among fellow Somalis.
“Many live in crammed quarters there. Several generations can live in the same apartment,” Mohamed suggested.
Somali imam Hussein Farah of Rinkeby's Islamic Cultural Centre suggested that the authorities' information on coronavirus in languages other than Swedish was insufficient and came too late. Mohamed Nuur, chairman of the Social Democrats in Tensta, called the lack of information “heartbreaking”.
https://sputniknews.com/europe/202003251078701431-somalis-over-represented-among-coronavirus-victims-in-stockholm-as-covid-19-reaches-blighted-areas/