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The COVID-19 pandemic in Tanzania was a part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Tanzania in March 2020.
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An artist painting a COVID-19 awareness mural in Tanzania, June 2020. The government announced in January 2021 that it had no plans in participate in vaccination projects encouraged by the WHO. The Catholic Church in Africa said it had observed an increase in Requiem masses and blamed funerals on an increase in COVID-19 infections. [218]
Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan received her COVID-19 vaccine in public on Wednesday, in the most decisive signal yet of a break from the policies of her late predecessor who repeatedly ...
Suluhu was sworn in as the 6th President of Tanzania on 19 March 2021, becoming its first female president. [23] Within four months of taking office, she formed a COVID-19 advisory committee and took steps to initiate a vaccination campaign in the country. [24] [25] She was expected to serve out the remainder of Magufuli's five-year term. [26]
Tanzania has seen an increase of non communicable diseases as some of the leading causes of death. The major ones by contribution include: cancer 5%, ischemic heart disease 3% and stroke 3%. [ 57 ] The double burden of disease is causing an extra strain to the already fragile health system that is struggling to cope with the scourge of ...
On 8 April, the WHO warned that the number of COVID-19 cases in Africa had now increased to over 10,000, with over 500 dead. [59] Responding to criticism, the WHO Director-General warned against politicizing COVID-19 as unity is the "only option" to defeat the pandemic, emphasizing, "please quarantine politicizing COVID". [60]
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