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Counting the burials: Africa scrambles to track Covid-19

Freshly covered graves are seen within older tombstones at the Protestant and Catholic cemetery, open for burials amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), in Wingate, North of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. [Reuters]

Long after the funding for his project was frozen, Bilal Endris has kept a lonely watch over cemeteries in Ethiopia's capital by slipping cash to gravediggers to alert his team to any sudden spikes in burials.

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