Samia Suluhu agrees to form a National Emergency reaction Committee to counter the COVID-19 pandemic
Tuesday, April 6, after administering the oaths of new and reshuffled permanent secretaries and deputies in the State House in Dar es Salaam, Suluhu explained that the exceptional group of experts will examine the COVID-19 issues and proposed remedies. Her government will soon form a National Emergency reaction Committee to counter the COVID-19 pandemic in the nation. The committee is expected to examine the effects and impact of COVID-19 within the lives and socio-economic actions of Tanzanians and advice on crucial national initiatives to respond to the outbreak, to mitigate the effects of pandemics on individual livelihoods, communities, and the market.
Though she Urged those who took the oath of office to go and serve Tanzanians. Suluhu has further said that there’s a great need to collaborate with the global community.
She at the same time ordered the reopening of media houses that were banned or sanctioned in preceding years. “I am reliably informed that the Ministry of Information has prohibited a few media houses. I recommend you to reopen these media stations but they need to also abide by the law. Let’s not be blamed for gagging the media,” explained Suluhu. “I’m planning to form a committee of specialists to research more widely COVID-19. They have to find out if these remedies suggested across the world will help us,” the president said.
Meanwhile, what we are saying as a government is that we cannot accept everything without thorough research. We cannot afford to isolate ourselves,” explained Suluhu. Suluhu echoed the thoughts of former president Jakaya Kikwete who had previously called for concerted efforts in stemming the spread of the virus in the nation.
“Kikwete told us concerning the need to seek advice from others and unite this information with our knowledge. We must get a proper stand instead of studying the impacts of the COVID-19 across the globe. We need to be known whether we agree with the entire world or we don’t,” she explained.
More than five thousand Tanzanians were qualified to be appointed to these authorities opening doors for media freedom. Suluhu also raised concern over in their companies,” explained Suluhu.
Whoever, president Samia Suluhu Hassan has shown that Place you should therefore work and go,” she explained.
The WHO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus congratulated the former vice president throughout John Pombe Magufuli’s administration and said he hopes they could work together to end the pandemic. Magufuli who was pronounced dead of cardiovascular failure, following weeks of speculation that he was infected with COVID-19 was out of the public eye since the end of February.
Since the pandemic inception in March 2020, the late Magufuli had ignored the virus danger. At one point, satirized the nation’s coronavirus testing facilities, stating he’d covertly sent samples of pineapples and goat and that they came out positive.
They Never provided evidence of that claim, he cautioned that those outcomes could mean that individuals were getting false-positive results. Later, Tanzania stopped sharing updates on the number of people infected and killed due to COVID-19. The country’s past coronavirus figures were recorded in May this past year. At that time, 509 people were confirmed to have contracted the virus and 29 had died. there are dangers of massive community transmission that go unreported.
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