Why Magufuli administration misses the point on Government splurge

After refusing to close shops and churches, Mr. Magufuli said Thursday that he would reopen sporting events. “Immunity improves when people come together…People must do sports to remain healthy,” he said. A political ally of the president, Paul Makonda, the regional commissioner of Dar es Salaam, said Friday that Tanzanians should take to the streets on Sunday to celebrate “the end of the coronavirus.”

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Neighboring Zambia and Kenya have closed some border crossings with Tanzania following an increase of imported coronavirus cases, stalling multimillion-dollar shipments of copper and cobalt for several days. Landlocked Uganda and Rwanda have imposed more measures on travelers and truckers from Tanzania.

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Now the virus appears to be surging in nearby South Sudan, where 11 cabinet members, including Vice President Riek Machar, who heads a task force to combat the disease, tested positive for coronavirus this week, along with his wife, also a cabinet member.

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A goldfish has no hiding place

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Analysts said the news suggests the virus could be working its way through the country’s elite at a delicate moment: South Sudan last week became the first African country to register coronavirus cases in refugee camps. Some 1.5 million people are living in enclosed and overcrowded temporary settlements across the country, where the implementation of social distancing is impossible.

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Every one of the 15-member coronavirus task force has now tested positive for the virus, according to the minister of information, who has also been infected. The government on Friday was forced to deny reports that cabinet ministers had been airlifted out of the country for emergency treatment.

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President Paul Biya, who has led the country since Gerald Ford was in the Oval Office, hasn’t appeared in public for months, sparking rumors that he might be dead of Covid-19. On Friday, the government said one of the president’s personal doctors had died in the capital Yaoundé.

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Africa coronavirus and covid-19 infections and fatalities could even be ten times more than official figures released so far

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Africa Development Bank Loans Kenya EUR188 Mln to Boost Pandemic Response

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Coronavirus Pandemic Disrupting Routine Childhood Vaccine Efforts, Global Health Authorities Say

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Global health authorities say the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted routine childhood vaccine efforts in at least 68 countries, potentially impacting as many as 80 million children under the age of one.

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"We cannot let our fight against one disease come at the expense of long-term progress in our fight against other diseases," Henrietta Fore, the executive director of UNICEF said at a press briefing held by the World Health Organization. "While circumstances may require us to temporarily pause some immunization efforts, these immunizations must restart as soon as possible, or we risk exchanging one deadly outbreak for another."

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The WHO said measles vaccination campaigns have been completely halted in 27 countries and polio efforts have stopped in 38 countries. WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus listed Nigeria, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ukraine as places that had been particularly affected.

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He said some countries, like Uganda and Laos, had made special efforts to continue immunization efforts despite national lockdowns, by setting up fixed sites to administer vaccines and continuing to fund outreach campaigns.

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The officials largely attributed the disruptions to parents reluctant to bring their children to health providers during the outbreak, a lack of availability of healthcare workers and interruptions of supplies due to a decline in commercial and charter flights.

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Indeed, it's wishful thinking to expect tourism to resume given bleak labour markets abroad

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When political disputes are resolved by overreaching prosecutorial weapons then you know justice is a primary victim

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When policy debates are lost and one settles once and all such grudges by violence then you know it is justice under scrutiny

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C.D.C. Test Counting Error Leaves Epidemiologists ‘Really Baffled’

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Opinion | Crumbs for the Hungry but Windfalls for the Rich

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