Tanzania President Samia Suluhu has approved the importation of COVID-19 vaccines into the country. The event took place at the State House, Dodoma, and was presided by the Special Committee on COVID-19 led by Professor Said Aboud's chairman. Combating COVID-19 pandemicDuring her visit to the country in May, Suluhu said Tanzania would collaborate with Kenya and the international community to combat the spread of the disease in the region, adding that her country was not an island. "COVID-19 has affected the growth of our economy and has changed our ways of life. The populous East African country updated its coronavirus statistics in May 2020 after the then-president John Pombe Magufuli dismissed COVID-19 positive tests.

Source: Daily Nation June 05, 2021 12:33 UTC