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The political opposition in Tanzania demands to know where the country’s president, John Magufuli, lives. The virus-skeptical president is rumored to have fallen ill with covid-19.
The president has not been seen in public in nearly two weeks, raising questions about his health.
In several social networks in neighboring Kenya, it is written that the President of Tanzania, Magufuli, has fallen ill with covid-19 and the Kenyan newspaper Nation reports that an African leader who has not been seen for almost two weeks is treated with corona with a ventilator in a private hospital in the capital, Nairobi.
But Nation, one of Kenya’s largest newspapers, refers only to political and diplomatic sources and does not reveal who the African leader is in the country.
Tip to breathe
Several high-ranking figures in the Tanzanian public sphere have recently died, with the AFP news agency reporting that the country’s finance minister appeared at a press conference last month where he coughed and gasped.
The press conference was held outside a hospital and was intended to dispel rumors of the death of the finance minister.
In February, Vice President Seif Sharif Hamad died on the semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar with COVID-19.
John Magufuli had long claimed that the virus had been banned in Tanzania thanks to prayers, and urged his compatriots to reject the vaccines, which he called dangerous and part of a Western conspiracy.
But after Seif Sharif Hamad’s death, the Magufuli regime admitted that it really had no control over the virus.
Does not report covid statistics
Now the political opposition in Tanzania is demanding that the government report where Magufuli is staying.
“The president’s well-being is a matter of great public interest. What does Magufuli have that we cannot know?” Opposition leader Tundu Lissu wrote on Twitter.
Later on Wednesday, Lissu told Reuters that multiple sources had told him that Magufuli was currently in a hospital in Nairobi and that there were plans to transfer him to India.
The Tanzanian government stopped reporting statistics on infected and confirmed deaths linked to COVID-19 in May last year. At that time, the country had 509 infected and 21 confirmed deaths.
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