Why Magufuli administration misses the point on Government splurge

Why Magufuli administration misses the point on Government splurge

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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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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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"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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