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The gravedigger’s truth: Hidden coronavirus deaths


Monday July 27, 2020
Somali workers in protective suits stand inside a grave in Mogadishu. Photograph: Feisal Omar/Reuters
Somali workers in protective suits stand inside a grave in Mogadishu. Photograph: Feisal Omar/Reuters


Fewer than 100 people have died of Covid-19 in Somalia, according to official figures.

But BBC Africa Eye has found that cemeteries are filling up fast in the country, whose healthcare system has been devastated by three decades of conflict.

It's been looking into the reality of coronavirus in Somalia, following two young doctors in the fight of their lives.

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