put to one of the leaders in the battle against covert 19 sweden's minister for health and social affairs lena having grown talks to al jazeera. sweden's minister for health and social affairs alaina helen dan thanks for joining us and for talking to al-jazeera can i just begin with the government motto during the covert 19 pandemic which was physical distancing not social distancing was that the best policy considering the latest figures from sweden suggests that you've had nearly 6000 deaths and nearly 80000 infections but let me say that we have had a situation in sweden which has the best problem at the as many other countries i mean this is a global pandemic virus we knew very little about from the beginning now you know a lot more so rare or suppressed in time all during those it's 6 months since we have urged. its case in sweden we have been working very hard and i just want to take every day i can say that it's way that we didn't have business as usual in any way we had physical distance . we had so many changes so if you will visit sweden and talk to people in suite and they would say