{"id":402984,"date":"2021-02-22T12:46:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T09:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=402984"},"modified":"2021-02-22T12:46:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T09:46:44","slug":"tanzanias-president-admits-country-has-covid-19-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/tanzanias-president-admits-country-has-covid-19-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania\u2019s President Admits Country Has COVID-19 Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tanzania(SONNA)-The president of Tanzania has urged its citizens to take preventive measures against the coronavirus after downplaying the disease for months and claiming it had been defeated by prayers.<\/p>\n

Speaking during a Sunday church mass in the capital Dodoma, President John Magufuli urged citizens of the East African country to take precautions and wear face masks \u2013 but only locally made ones.<\/p>\n

Over the course of the pandemic, Magufuli has expressed wariness about foreign-made goods, including COVID vaccines.<\/p>\n

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A few hours later, the health ministry issued a statement also calling on people to wear face masks and wash their hands to prevent COVID-19 infections, according to local media.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The president\u2019s comments came a day after the World Health Organization\u2019s chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus\u00a0urged Tanzania<\/a>\u00a0to take \u201crobust action\u201d to tackle the outbreak in the country as \u201cthe situation remains very concerning\u201d.<\/p>\n

The call for action came after a number of Tanzanians travelling to neighbouring countries and beyond tested positive for the coronavirus, according to a statement issued by the WHO.<\/p>\n

Others recently expressing concern include the United States .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tanzania(SONNA)-The president of Tanzania has urged its citizens to take preventive measures against the coronavirus after downplaying the disease for months and claiming it had been defeated by prayers. Speaking during a Sunday church mass in the capital Dodoma, President John Magufuli urged citizens of the East African country to take precautions and wear face […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402986,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402984\/revisions\/402986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}