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There was a scare in Tanzania when President Pompe magufuli was commissioning firefighter headquarters, He started coughing uncontrollably in public interrupting his speech momentarily .

The government has stopped publishing data on the number of coronavirus cases in the country.

On 29 April, the last day official data was released, there were 509 cases, with 21 deaths in Tanzania. However, Mr. Magufuli said last week that only four patients were receiving treatment in the largest city, Dar es Salaam.

Last month, Tanzania’s government dismissed a US embassy warning that hospitals in Dar es Salaam were “overwhelmed” and that the chances of contracting the virus were “extremely high”.

Mr. Magufuli has repeatedly said the health crisis has been exaggerated and urged people to attend services in churches and mosques, saying that prayers “can vanquish” the virus

Tanzania stopped testing of Coronavirus after the president announced that pawpaw and a goat had tested positive.

The president recently declared the country COVID-19 free. The country has returned to normal as its neighboring country beef up the measure to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

Another country that has chosen to downplay Coronavirus is Burundi. On Tuesday president Pierre Nkurunziza who was set to step down on August died of a complication related to COVID-19.

In Burundi life has been normal has it is the only country in Africa that didn’t stop sporting activities.

President Pompe Magufuli has many time quashed the severity of Coronavirus and even touting treatment for Coronavirus yet to be proven by COVID-19.

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