Tanzania President Samia Suluhu (pictured) has taken the COVID-19 Jab. Source: Getty ImagesSuluhu led hundreds of high profile government officials, among them Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa, in the inoculation exercise. "We are not an island and that is why now we are starting vaccination,'' Suluhu said during the event held at the Mnazi Mmoja Grounds in Dar es Salaam. “Many have accepted to be vaccinated while a few have rejected, I have received many messages asking when we will start vaccination. On Saturday, July 24, the nation received its first batch of one million Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines donated by the U.S. government through the World Health Organisation's Covax initiative.

Source: Daily Nation July 28, 2021 10:25 UTC