Sweden's Pandemic Strategy Deadly for Most Vulnerable | Opinion Nuri Kino , independent investigative reporter On 2/11/21 at 5:30 AM EST In Sweden, the foreign-born are overrepresented among COVID-19 deaths. It is no secret. Neither the Swedish media nor the country's politicians are willing to discuss the tragedy publicly. Is the reality too hard to handle for a country that considers itself to be one of the most humanitarian in the world? Thirty-eight people I know passed away from COVID-19. They are relatives, friends and acquaintances. Among them my beloved uncle Melek, my aunt Ziyane, my relative by marriage and good friend's 41-year-old son Lutfi, my father's friend the priest Munir Barbar's son Jean, my mother's friends Maryam and Nabihat, my father's friends Abdulmesih, Samuel and Davut.