Tanzanian President Cautions Against Coronavirus Vaccines

  • ‘We should be very careful,’ Magufuli says in speech
  • Tanzania is one of few nations that don’t publish virus data
John Magufuli

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Tanzanian President John Magufuli, the only African leader to claim there’s no Covid-19 in his country, publicly cautioned the Health Ministry against vaccines and said it shouldn’t rush into any experiments.

“We should be very careful,” Magufuli said in a speech from his rural home in Chato, near Lake Victoria, broadcast on state TV. “Not everything we receive from outside is in our best interest.”