{"id":19868,"date":"2020-06-09T13:36:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T13:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=19868"},"modified":"2020-06-09T13:36:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T13:36:21","slug":"tanzania-now-free-of-covid-19-president-magufuli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=19868","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania now free of COVID-19 \u2013President Magufuli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The President of Tanzania<\/a> John Magufuli has declared the country \u201ccoronavirus-free\u201d thanks to prayers by citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe corona disease has been eliminated thanks to God,\u201d Mr Magufuli told worshippers in a church in the capital, Dodoma on Monday<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed concern over the government\u2019s strategy on Covid-19 as it stopped publishing data on the number of coronavirus cases in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Magufuli has repeatedly said the health crisis has been exaggerated and urged people to attend services in churches and mosques, saying that prayers \u201ccan vanquish\u201d the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This came after New Zealand announced that it is free from the deadly COVID-19 virus as it no longer has any active cases of the disease with the last case reported on May 22 after the outbreak of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was announced by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern<\/a> who said that New Zealand will lift its last remaining restrictions to curb the coronavirus at midnight (12:00 GMT) when the country will return to Level 1 on its four level systems of alerts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ardern said New Zealand had introduced a strict lockdown 75 days ago with the aim of getting to a level \u201cwhere life feels as normal as it can in the midst of a global pandemic. Today, I can announce that the cabinet has agreed we can now move to Level 1.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The President of Tanzania John Magufuli has declared the country \u201ccoronavirus-free\u201d thanks to prayers by citizens. \u201cThe corona disease has been eliminated thanks to God,\u201d Mr Magufuli told worshippers in a church in the capital, Dodoma on Monday The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed concern over the government\u2019s strategy on Covid-19 as it stopped publishing data […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nTanzania now free of COVID-19 \u2013President Magufuli » WatchDog Plus Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=19868\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Odofin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=19868#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Health\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=6\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Tanzania now free of COVID-19 \u2013President Magufuli\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Tanzania now free of COVID-19 \u2013President Magufuli » WatchDog Plus Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=19868","author":"Odofin","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=19868#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Health","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=6"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Tanzania now free of COVID-19 \u2013President Magufuli"}]}]}},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Odofin","author_link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?author=2"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=6\" rel=\"category\">Health<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"The President of Tanzania John Magufuli has declared the country \u201ccoronavirus-free\u201d thanks to prayers by citizens. \u201cThe corona disease has been eliminated thanks to God,\u201d Mr Magufuli told worshippers in a church in the capital, Dodoma on Monday The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed concern over the government\u2019s strategy on Covid-19 as it stopped publishing data…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19868"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}