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Africa-Press<\/a> – Tanzania<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>A committee of experts on Covid-19, set up by Tanzania’s new president Samia Suluhu Hassan, recommended on Monday that official figures on the spread of the disease in the country be resumed after more than a year’s break.<\/p>\n

The task force also called for vaccines to be offered to frontline workers and vulnerable people.<\/p>\n

Former President John Magufuli, who died on 18 March, had consistently downplayed the pandemic, relying on prayers to defeat the virus and declaring vaccines potentially “dangerous”.<\/p>\n

The country has not published statistics on the epidemic since April 2020: the latest figures were 509 cases of infection and 16 deaths.<\/p>\n

His successor, Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan, took the opposite view of his policy, saying that “it is not good to ignore it” (Covid-19).<\/p>\n

“We cannot reject it or accept it without the findings of scientific research,” the president, who appears in public wearing a mask, said in early April, announcing the creation of a task force to advise her government on managing the pandemic.<\/p>\n

In their recommendations to the president on Monday, the experts said that “the government should provide accurate statistics on Covid-19 to the public and the World Health Organisation so that citizens have correct information on the disease, and respect international agreements”.<\/p>\n

They say that Tanzania has endured two severe waves of coronavirus and is facing a possible third wave.<\/p>\n

They also advise the government to offer WHO-approved vaccines to frontline workers, the elderly and people at risk of co-morbidity.<\/p>\n

John Magufuli refused to impose measures to contain the disease, minimising its presence and severity.<\/p>\n

The devout Catholic had said that his country had “freed itself” from it through prayer. He also mocked the reliability of tests, saying that a goat, a quail and a papaya had tested positive.<\/p>\n

Faced with a wave of deaths in February attributed to “pneumonia”, affecting even high-level officials, he admitted, however, half-heartedly, that the virus was still circulating.<\/p>\n

President since 2015, Mr Magufuli, nicknamed the “Bulldozer”, died on 18 March after a mysterious three-week absence, officially of heart problems. But his main opponent claimed he died of Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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