Tanzania gets ready to start vaccine rollout

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Tanzania, Eritrea and Burundi were the only countries on the continent yet to begin vaccinating their citizens against COVID-19.

The move was announced by Health Minister Dorothy Gwajima, who also called for other government leaders to play a role in fighting the pandemic.

But since Magufuli’s death in March, his successor Samia Suluhu Hassan has taken a different approach, creating an expert taskforce to advise her government about how to best proceed with managing the pandemic. Gwajima, who under Magufuli promoted a vegetable smoothie and other purported natural cures to ward off COVID, said Thursday that vaccines would start being administered soon for free to those who want them, but did not specify a date.“I call upon all citizens to get prepared for vaccination,” she said.

“It is now fair to say we have seen a significant shift in Tanzania’s position,” said John Nkengasong, director of Africa CDC.The government says Magufuli, nicknamed the “Bulldozer” for his uncompromising leadership style, died of a heart condition after a mysterious three-week absence.When Hassan came to power in March, there were high hopes that Tanzania would be steered away from the heavy-handed and uncompromising leadership of her predecessor.

 

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