Tanzania pledges to release Covid-19 numbers weekly

Tanzanian Health Minister Dorothy Gwajima

Tanzanian Health Minister Dorothy Gwajima briefs the media at Afya House in Kenya's capital Nairobi on August 5, 2021. PHOTO | NMG

What you need to know:

  • Tanzania submitted its last report on the virus to the World Health Organization (WHO) on January 3, 2021, when the country indicated there were 25,846 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 719 deaths.
  • But increasingly, the country has come under pressure to publish data on the spread of coronavirus as part of conditional approval of a $574 million emergency loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).