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Tanzania: Govt in New Strategy to Contain Covid-19
Citizen, 22 February 2021
The government has come up with a new set of measures in a deliberate move to contain further spread of Covid-19 amid claims of a worrying rise in deaths that are attributable to… Read more »
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Tanzania: How Covid-19 Became a Non-Issue in Tanzania's Elections
African Arguments, 25 February 2021
The pandemic neither affected the running of the October 2020 elections nor was it an issue on the campaign trail. Why? Read more »
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Tanzania: WHO's Tedros Warns Tanzania to Act On Covid-19
Independent (Kampala), 21 February 2021
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has reached out to COVID-19 skeptic, Tanzania's President John Magufuli, promising to support the country's… Read more »
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Tanzania: Death Robs Tanzania of 10 Prominent Persons in February
East African, 23 February 2021
The death of former Bank of Tanzania (BoT) Governor, Prof Benno Ndulu, brings to 10 the number of prominent Tanzanians who have died in less than a month. Read more »
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Tanzania: Is There a Hidden Covid Crisis in Zanzibar?
DW, 19 February 2021
Despite skepticism, fear about the coronavirus has increased in Tanzania following the death of a prominent politician in Zanzibar. Mourners showed up at public memorials wearing… Read more »
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Tanzania: Report Covid-19 Cases and Implement Public Health Measures, Pleads Tedros
WHO, 21 February 2021
We extend our condolences to our Tanzanian sisters and brothers on the recent passing of a senior Tanzanian leader as well as the government's Chief Secretary. Read more »
Tanzania Announces New Covid-19 Measures After WHO Warning
The World Health Organization's director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, had publicly put pressure on Tanzania to act more decisively in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. "I renew my call for Tanzania to start reporting COVID-19 cases and share data. I also call on Tanzania to implement the public health measures that we know work in breaking the chains of transmission, and to prepare for vaccination," Tedros said
Days later there were reports of the country implementing new measures to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Within the country, Tanzanian lawyers and Catholic bishops had also been pressing President John Pombe Magufuli to recognise the crisis, while taking their own preventative measures. But Magufuli, while recognising the virus is in the country, refused to impose a lockdown "because we know God is present all days".
These developments came after the First Vice President of Zanzibar, Seif Sharif Hamad, died, reportedly after he contracted Covid-19.
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Tanzania: WHO Urges Tanzania to Share Covid Figures As Travellers Test Positive
RFI, 21 February 2021
The World Health Organization has renewed its call for Tanzania to make its Covid-19 statistics public, after a number of domestic and foreign travellers coming from the country… Read more »
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Tanzania: Magufuli Under Pressure to Declare Covid Present in Tanzania
Nation, 20 February 2021
The Tanganyika Law Society (TLS) has called on the Tanzanian government to declare the presence of Covid-19 in the country, and announced mandatory preventive measures after losing… Read more »
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Tanzania: Magufuli Rules Out Lockdown for Tanzania
Nation, 19 February 2021
Tanzanian president John Pombe Magufuli has remained adamant that he will not impose a lockdown even as suspected Covid-19 cases continue to surge in the country. Instead, he urged… Read more »
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Tanzania: We'll Pray for Coronavirus to End - Magufuli
Nairobi News, 19 February 2021
Tanzania President John Pombe Magufuli appears to have shifted his stance over the state of the coronavirus pandemic in the country. Read more »
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Tanzania: Finance Minister's Condition Improving - Magufuli
Citizen, 19 February 2021
President John Magufuli has today called on Tanzanians to stop threatening one another in the process causing panic regarding respiratory diseases, instead, they should take all… Read more »
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Tanzania: Is There a Hidden Covid-19 Crisis in Zanzibar?
DW, 19 February 2021
Fear of the coronavirus superseded skepticism in Tanzania this week following the death of a well-known politician in Zanzibar. Mourners showed up at public memorials wearing face… Read more »
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Tanzania: Maalim Seif Sharif Hamad's Life and Zanzibar Politics (1943-2021)
Daily News, 17 February 2021
Mr. Seif Sharif Hamad, popularly known as Maalim Seif was born at Nyali, Mtambwe in Wete, Pemba (Zanzibar's sister island) on October 22, 1943. Read more »
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Tanzania: Magufuli and His Anti-Science Fantasy
Monitor, 16 February 2021
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Tanzania's health ministry is urging citizens to practice hygiene and use traditional medicine to treat Covid-19. In addition, the country's health minister, Dr Dorothy Gwajima, is ... Read more »
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Two months ago, in June, President John Magufuli said that the novel coronavirus pandemic was officially over for Tanzanians. The last official Covid-19 update was in May, when 29 ... Read more »
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President John Magufuli has thanked religious leaders for responding to his call for special national prayers against the novel coronavirus, saying God has responded accordingly. ... Read more »
