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AfricaPress-Tanzania:<\/strong> HEALTH authorities in Mara Region have intensified COVID-19 spotcheck tests for passengers arriving into the country with an aim of taming the spread of the disease.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are conducting and ensuring health screening in all risk areas, including regular washing of hands that is now a must,\u201d said Mara Regional Medical Officer (RMO) Dr Florian Tinuga at Sirari border that separates Kenya and Tanzania recently.<\/p>\n

Besides Sirari, he mentioned other spot check areas as Musoma airport, Serengeti National Park (SENAPA) and bus stations.<\/p>\n

However, he said that if any person would be found with symptoms associated with the viral disease, the patient will be taken to some special isolation areas for further investigations. Authorities in Mara Region have set aside nine quarantine centres for anyone who would show symptoms of coronavirus disease. \u201cIn Mara region we have nine District Councils and there is a centre in every council, \u201c pointed out Dr Tinuga.<\/p>\n

In addition to that, the RMO said that a team of health personnel with support from the Ministry of Health will receive a special training on how to handle and deal with suspected COVID -19 patients.<\/p>\n

Expounding, Dr Tinuga asked Mara Region citizens to continue taking precaution measures including washing hands regularly, saying: \u201cWe also request citizens to provide reports whenever they see a person with coronavirus symptoms like coughing and high fever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AfricaPress-Tanzania: HEALTH authorities in Mara Region have intensified COVID-19 spotcheck tests for passengers arriving into the country with an aim of taming the spread of the disease. \u201cWe are conducting and ensuring health screening in all risk areas, including regular washing of hands that is now a must,\u201d said Mara Regional Medical Officer (RMO) Dr […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":5689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,2565,8],"tags":[2864,1887,2863],"class_list":["post-5697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-coronavirus-in-tanzania","category-homepage-english","tag-florian-tinuga","tag-mara-region","tag-senapa"],"yoast_head":"\nCOVID-19: MARA INTENSIFIES HEALTH CHECKS AT ENTRY POINTS - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"HEALTH authorities in Mara Region have intensified COVID-19 spotcheck tests for passengers arriving into the country with an aim of\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/covid-19-mara-intensifies-health-checks-at-entry-points\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COVID-19: MARA INTENSIFIES HEALTH CHECKS AT ENTRY POINTS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"HEALTH authorities in Mara Region have intensified COVID-19 spotcheck tests for passengers arriving into the country with an aim of\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/covid-19-mara-intensifies-health-checks-at-entry-points\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tanzania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-03-22T14:00:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-03-22T14:01:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/03\/b0ed5207179aae7b8accb99ae3b1cf52.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"699\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"438\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/covid-19-mara-intensifies-health-checks-at-entry-points#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/covid-19-mara-intensifies-health-checks-at-entry-points\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"COVID-19: MARA INTENSIFIES HEALTH CHECKS AT ENTRY POINTS\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-03-22T14:00:47+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-03-22T14:01:01+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/covid-19-mara-intensifies-health-checks-at-entry-points\"},\"wordCount\":234,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/covid-19-mara-intensifies-health-checks-at-entry-points#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/03\/b0ed5207179aae7b8accb99ae3b1cf52.jpeg\",\"keywords\":[\"Florian Tinuga\",\"Mara Region\",\"SENAPA\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"Coronavirus in Tanzania\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/covid-19-mara-intensifies-health-checks-at-entry-points#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/covid-19-mara-intensifies-health-checks-at-entry-points\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/covid-19-mara-intensifies-health-checks-at-entry-points\",\"name\":\"COVID-19: MARA INTENSIFIES HEALTH CHECKS AT ENTRY POINTS - 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