Tanzania leader Samia Suluhu Hassan undoes John Magufuli’s policy on Covid-19
Magufuli, who died in March, disregarded masks and advised citizens to use prayer, steam baths and traditional remedies to protect their health
06 April 2021 - 17:29
Tanzania’s new president announced plans to appoint a panel of experts to advise her on how best to curb the spread of the coronavirus, reversing her predecessor’s denialism of the pandemic.
“We cannot isolate [ourselves] as an island,” President Samia Suluhu Hassan told senior government officials in an address televised on state broadcaster TBC1. “We cannot accept everything from abroad, but we also cannot reject everything.”..
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