{"id":8532,"date":"2020-05-11T16:41:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T16:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/tanzania\/?p=8532"},"modified":"2020-05-11T16:41:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T16:41:02","slug":"zbar-dismisses-covid-19-data-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/zbar-dismisses-covid-19-data-on-social-media","title":{"rendered":"Z\u2019BAR DISMISSES COVID-19 DATA ON SOCIAL MEDIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"detailz\" class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>AfricaPress-Tanzania:<\/strong> THE Zanzibar Health Minister Hamad Rashid Mohamed has dismissed speculation on social media that the Isles has so far recorded 235 Covid-19 positive cases and 32 fatalities since the outbreak of respiratory disease on the Isles March 18, this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have no reason to hide the truth, we will announce the most up-to-date information on Covid-19 whenever we are ready to do so,&#8221; Mr Mohamed said in a statement issued yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We ask members of the public to trust us as a reliable source of information,&#8221; the Health Minister added.<\/p>\n<p>He insisted that as of last Thursday, Zanzibar had recorded five (5) deaths out of 134 recorded cases of the coronavirus,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Feel free to visit our offices for clarifications,&#8221; he appealed.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mohamed condemned people releasing false data, saying misinformation only fuelled public panic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Publishing information with the aim of causing panic is against laws regarding use of national emblem, statistics Act, and Cybercrimes Act,&#8221; he warned.<\/p>\n<p>Unknown person published or distributed the dismissed information on social media last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The false information was printed in the Ministry of Health&#8217;s &#8216;letterhead.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>As the world still struggles to find ways to stop the spread of the virus including a vaccine, the Minister emphasized on the importance of social distancing and the need to take it seriously.<\/p>\n<p>More than 4 million cases of Coronavirus have been recorded worldwide, including at least 279,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"news\">\n<div class=\"item\">\n<div class=\"item-image-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Tanzania: THE Zanzibar Health Minister Hamad Rashid Mohamed has dismissed speculation on social media that the Isles has so far recorded 235 Covid-19 positive cases and 32 fatalities since the outbreak of respiratory disease on the Isles March 18, this year. &#8220;We have no reason to hide the truth, we will announce the most up-to-date [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":8533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,2565,7,8],"tags":[2322,2827,3797],"class_list":["post-8532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-coronavirus-in-tanzania","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","tag-covid-19","tag-hamad-rashid-mohamed","tag-the-zanzibar-health-minister"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - 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