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Graves at Dar es Salaam’s Kondo cemetery, where government officials came at
night to secretly bury the dead.


INSIDE THE WORLD’S MOST BLATANT COVID-19 COVERUP: SECRET BURIALS, A DEAD
PRESIDENT


TANZANIA DENIED THE EXISTENCE OF THE PANDEMIC FOR MONTHS, EVEN AS THOUSANDS
LIKELY DIED. THE COUNTRY IS A CLUE TO ITS HIDDEN GLOBAL TOLL.

Graves at Dar es Salaam’s Kondo cemetery, where government officials came at
night to secretly bury the dead.
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Photographs by Samantha Reinders for The Wall Street Journal
Nov. 4, 2021 12:13 pm ET

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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania—Tucked away in a northern suburb of this sprawling East
African city is a burial site that is evidence of one of the world’s great
coronavirus coverups.

At the Kondo graveyard in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, unmasked volunteers have been
digging holes and felling trees to expand a compound that has tripled in size
since last year. During the pandemic’s first wave, hazmat-suited government
officials came at night to secretly bury the dead, graveyard workers and
bereaved families said. Now, small groups of mourners gather for hasty
ceremonies next to floral tributes.

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