{"id":183766,"date":"2021-02-19T23:06:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T20:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/tanzanias-covid-denying-leader-urges-prayer-as-cases-climb\/"},"modified":"2021-02-19T23:06:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T20:06:56","slug":"tanzanias-covid-denying-leader-urges-prayer-as-cases-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tanzanias-covid-denying-leader-urges-prayer-as-cases-climb\/","title":{"rendered":"#Tanzania\u2019s COVID-denying leader urges prayer as cases climb"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Tanzania\u2019s COVID-denying leader urges prayer as cases climb<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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NAIROBI, Kenya \u2014 Tanzania\u2019s COVID-denying president is calling on citizens for three days of prayer to defeat unnamed \u201crespiratory diseases\u201d amid warnings that the country is seeing a deadly resurgence in infections.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe we have wronged God somewhere,\u201d populist President John Magufuli told mourners at a funeral for his chief secretary, John Kijazi, on Friday. \u201cLet us all repent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Magufuli has repeatedly claimed that Tanzania, a country of some 60 million people, defeated COVID-19 with God\u2019s help. The government has not updated its number of coronavirus cases since April, and the health ministry has promoted unproven herbal remedies. Magufuli has questioned COVID-19 vaccines without offering evidence.<\/p>\n

But the local Catholic church, the U.S. Embassy and others have openly warned of a resurgence in cases. And this week the death of the vice president of the semi-autonomous island region of Zanzibar, Seif Sharif Hamad, brought widespread attention after his opposition political party said he had COVID-19.<\/p>\n

Hamad\u2019s death is \u201ca clear symbol this pandemic is raging,\u201c the director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, John Nkengasong, told reporters on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Speaking about the deaths of Hamad and Kijazi, Tanzania\u2019s president asked the country to remain calm.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe managed to defeat these respiratory diseases through prayer last year. I am sure we will do so this year,\u201d he said in the nationally televised event.<\/p>\n

Magufuli also announced that Finance Minister Philip Mpango had been admitted to a hospital in the capital, Dodoma. He did not say why.<\/p>\n

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People use a hand-washing station installed for members of the public entering a market in Dodoma, Tanzania. Tanzania\u2019s COVID-denying president Magufuli on Friday Feb. 19, 2021, is calling on citizens for three days of prayer to defeat unnamed \u201crespiratory diseases\u201d amid warnings that the country is seeing a deadly resurgence in infections. <\/figcaption>
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“#Tanzania\u2019s COVID-denying leader urges prayer as cases climb” NAIROBI, Kenya \u2014 Tanzania\u2019s COVID-denying president is calling on citizens for three days of prayer to defeat unnamed \u201crespiratory diseases\u201d amid warnings that the country is seeing a deadly resurgence in infections. \u201cMaybe we have wronged God somewhere,\u201d populist President John Magufuli told mourners at a funeral…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/tanzania-3.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[94145,1545,71126,94353],"class_list":["post-183766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-19-21","tag-coronavirus","tag-politicians","tag-tanzania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}