are concerns the message has not reached everyone in immigrant neighborhoodsits important that everyone living here who has a different mother tongue gets the right information said warda addallah a 17yearold somali swedeanders wallensten swedens deputy state epidemiologist said officials have worked harder on communicating with such groups to make sure they have the knowledge to protect themselves and avoid spreading the disease to othersbut teacher and community activist rashid musa says the problem runs much deeperi wish it were that easy that you needed to just translate a few papers he said we need to look at the more fundamental issue which is class which is racism which is social status which is incomethe rich have the opportunity to put themselves into quarantine they can go to their summer houses musa saida key government recommendation for individuals to work from home if possible is harder in marginalized areas where many have jobs in the service sectorhow can a bus driver or a taxi driver work from home musa askedevidence of this disparity can be found in anonymous data aggregated by mobile phone operator telia which has given the swedish health authority information about population mobility by comparing the number of people in an area early in the morning with those who traveled to another area for at least an hour later in the day telia estimates how many go to work and how many stay homewe do see certain areas that are maybe more affluent with a bigger number of people working from home said kristofer agren the head of data insights for telia data shows a 12 percentage point difference between danderyd one of stockholms most affluent suburbs and botkryka one with the highest percentage of first and secondgeneration immigrantsmany of our members have contracted the coronavirus said akil zahiri who helps administer the mosque on the outskirts of stockholm but you do the best you canzahiri spoke to the ap as he sat alone in swedens largest shiite mosque coordinating a video call with the congregation to pray for a member who died of covid19 the sound of prayer crackled through the computer breaking the silence in the empty hallduring ramadan the month when muslims fast during the day the mosque canceled all public events zahiri reminded the congregation to take part in social distancing urging them to stay home for the iftar the daily breaking of the fast after sunset and to avoid sharing food with friends