Even six months after it began, plenty of people unaware of Covid-19

In the week ending June 20, just over half 51 per cent of the 3,471 people tracked said they had never heard of Covid-19.

A half-year into the most momentous pandemic in decades, it's hard to imagine that anyone, anywhere has not heard of the coronavirus.

But scores of migrants arriving in Somalia tell United Nations workers every day that they are unaware of Covid-19.

Monitors for the UN migration agency interview people at the border in Somalia, a crossroads on one of the world's most dangerous migration routes: across the Red Sea with traffickers, through war-ravaged Yemen and into rich Gulf countries.

The questions for migrants are simple. Origin? Destination? Why are you going?

But after the first infections were confirmed in Somalia, a new one was