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Tanzania’s leader says his country is ‘covid-free.’ The facts are proving him wrong. Rael Ombuor, Max Bearak © Daniel Hayduk/AFP via Getty Images Tanzanian President John Magufuli during his swearing-in ceremony in Dar es Salaam, in November 2015. NAIROBI Tanzania’s president recently rejected any need for coronavirus vaccines, instead promoting herbal cures. He claims the nation of 60 million has been “covid-free” since he presided over three days of national prayer in June. Mark Mwandosya, a former minister in the president’s ruling party, knows that is not true. Over the past month, Mwandosya has turned his social media feeds into a stream of mini-obituaries. Fifteen of his family members and close friends have died. As he rattled off their names, he said he could not prove any of them had coronavirus, because the government has limited testing almost entirely to travelers. But the stories all go the same way.

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