Somali medics report rapid rise in deaths as Covid-19 fears grow

Concerns that official mortality counts in African countries are a big understatement Coronavirus - latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Medics, funeral workers and gravediggers in Somalia have reported an unprecedented surge of deaths in recent days amid growing fears that official counts of Covid-19 deaths reflect only a fraction of the virus's toll in Africa . So far Somalia, one of the poorest and most vulnerable countries on the continent, has announced an official total of 601 c...