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Tanzania changes tune, issues covid-19 rules
Health & Science - By
Jennifer Anyango | February 24th 2021 at 12:00:00 GMT +0300
Tanzania s President John Magufuli.
Tanzania has issued public health guidelines for Covid-19 that include wearing of masks, handwashing and physical distancing.
This is after the World Health Organisation called on the country to start reporting Covid-19 cases and share data. The guidelines were issued particularly to travelers using public transport in the country. The government, through the Ministry of Health, Social Development, Gender, the Elderly and Children, has issued guidelines on how to continue to protect yourself from the Coronavirus, the document read.
An extremely worrying trend is emerging in Tanzania concerning the existence of Covid-19 despite persistent government denials.
A top aide to President John Pombe Magufuli died yesterday at a local hospital but the government did not reveal the cause of his death.
Chief Secretary John Kijazi died while receiving treatment at the Benjamin Mkapa Hospital, according to a statement released by the president’s office.
On Thursday hundreds of mourners from Tanzania’s semi-autonomous islands of Zanzibar gathered to bid farewell to the deceased vice-president Seif Sharif Hamad who died from Covid-19.
He is the most prominent Tanzanian leader to have openly declared that he had contracted Covid-19.