Coronavirus has hit members of the Somali community in Sweden hard. Reports show that out of the fifteen COVID-19 deaths in the country, six of them are of Somali background.
According to Somalis in the Nordic country, authorities furnished them late with information. They were then unable to act on that information.
Furthermore, the Somalis say that the literature that Sweden’s health officials handed to them is inadequate because it is in either Swede or English only.
Consequently, the government of Sweden has updated the material to new languages. Henceforth, everyone in Swede would be able to access it in 15 other languages.
Additionally, SVT, which is the country’s national television network, and other media outlets in Sweden have added Arabic translations to all their dispatches.
The objective is to make the most important information regarding Coronavirus accessible to as many immigrants as possible.
Currently, Arabic is the second most spoken language in the European nation. Arabic surpassed Finnish from 2015 when the migrant crisis hit Sweden and most of Europe hard.