Tanzanian President to Open Schools and Allow Sport Activities Claiming Covid-19 Cases has Greatly Reduced

Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli says he will reopen schools and allow sporting activities to resume in the next week, claiming that Covid-19 infections in the country have greatly reduced.

Addressing a Sunday service, Magufuli read out a list of quarantine and isolation facilities where most of the patients had been discharged, noting that God had ‘answered Tanzania’s prayers.’ Some of the hospitals he cited included Amana in Dar es Salaam which he said had 198 patients and is now only left with 12 only.

He stated that Mloganzira which had 30 patients currently has only six cases, adding that Luranzi centre in Kibaa had discharged 28 patients of out of the 50 it had admitted.

“Kama wiki hii tunayoianza kesho itaendelea hivi, nimepanga kufungua vyuo ili wanafunzi wetu waendelee. Lakini nimepanga pia sisi kama taifa kuruhusu michezo iendelee kwa sababu michezo ni sehemu moja ya burudani kwa watanzania,” said Magufuli.

He went further to announce that a number of airlines in the country had made full bookings until August for tourists waiting to travel to Tanzania, adding that he had instructed his Ministers to allow the flights into the country.

Magufuli said the visitors will not be placed under mandatory quarantine upon arrival in Tanzania but will only undergo temperature tests then be cleared to tour the country.

“Mimi nimeshatoa maagizo kwa mawaziri wa Mali Asili na Uchukuzi waruhusu hizo ndege ziingie na wala hawataekwa kwenye karantini. Wakishapimwa temperature ipatikane iko sawa, waende wakaangalie wanyama huko,” he said.

Magufuli encouraged Tanzanians to continue working hard to improve the economy, saying that his country would be there to help countries that would be suffering as a result of the lock-down they imposed on their people during the pandemic.

Magufuli said Tanzania has previously witnessed and dealt with other types of viruses, therefore would not be intimidated by the coronavirus.

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