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Tanzania s Magufuli calls for three-day prayers, no lockdown
Friday February 19 2021
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President John Magufuli has said there will be no lockdown and asked Tanzanians to pray for three days starting Friday.
“Today for the Muslims who have already begun, tomorrow the Seventh Day Adventists who pray on Saturdays and on Sunday for Christians,” he said.
Addressing mourners on Friday in Dar es Salaam at the requiem mass for Chief Secretary Ambassador John Kijazi who died on Wednesday, the president said “God has never forsaken this nation. We won last year and graduated to middle-income status amid coronavirus, and projects implementation went on without imposing a lockdown and we will never impose lockdown.”
Church, WHO speak out against Tanzania over Covid-19
Tuesday February 02 2021
People wait in a line at Kimara bus station in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in April 2020. PHOTO | AFP
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There is no official Covid-19-related statistics or information available in Tanzania and issuing of unsanctioned Covid-19 information is strictly prohibited and restricted to the president, prime minister, the minister for Health and the government’s chief spokesman.
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The World Health Organisation said Thursday that it was in touch with Tanzania as President John Magufuli on Wednesday called for caution against Covid-19 vaccines being developed by Western scientists. The president also said that Tanzania is not planning to impose Covid-19 restrictions or lockdown anytime.