LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tanzania’s President John Magufuli said on Wednesday that no lockdown was planned because God would protect people from COVID-19 while homespun precautions such as steam inhalation were better than vaccines. “Vaccines are not good. If they were, then the white man would have brought vaccines for HIV/AIDS,” he said in a speech…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has declared the country “coronavirus-free” thanks to prayers by citizens. “The corona disease has been eliminated thanks to God,” Mr Magufuli told worshippers in a church in the capital, Dodoma. The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed concern over the government’s strategy on Covid-19. The government has stopped…
LAGOS MAY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There has been a “sharp decline” in the number of coronavirus patients in Tanzania’s hospitals, the president said, four days after the US embassy in the country reported that many hospitals had been “overwhelmed”. John Magufuli was speaking to an applauding church congregation when he said: “God has answered your prayers.” In…
LAGOS MAY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)– The head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday rejected an assertion by Tanzania’s president that coronavirus tests it supplied are faulty. Tanzania’s government spokesman said a team was conducting investigations on the laboratory that conducted the tests, and the outcome will be made public once complete….
LAGOS May 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Coronavirus test kits used in Tanzania were dismissed as faulty by President John Magufuli on Sunday, because he said they had returned positive results on samples taken from a goat and a pawpaw. Magufuli, whose government has already drawn criticism for being secretive about the coronavirus outbreak and has previously asked Tanzanians…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An engineer who had shut himself into the engine room of a shipwrecked ferry was found alive yesterday, two days after it capsized in Tanzania. Bodies continued to float to the surface around the vessel, which initial estimates suggested was carrying more than 300 people. State broadcaster TBC said the death toll…
LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tanzania unveiled former Nigeria international Emmanuel Amunike as their new head coach on Monday. The Tanzania Football Federation confirmed the appointment on their official Twitter handle, with Amunike being unveiled by TFF President Wallace Karia in Dar es Salaam. The 47-year-old, who has been without a job since leaving Sudan’s Al Khartoum…