{"id":15454,"date":"2020-05-23T11:21:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T08:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=15454"},"modified":"2020-05-23T11:24:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T08:24:50","slug":"let-the-party-resume-coronavirus-has-ended-tanzanian-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/23\/let-the-party-resume-coronavirus-has-ended-tanzanian-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Let The Party Resume, Coronavirus Has Ended \u2014 Tanzanian Official"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A senior politician has sparked disbelief among Tanzanians by claiming that coronavirus in the country &#8220;has ended&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul Makonda, regional commissioner of the country&#8217;s biggest city Dar es Salaam, called on the public to celebrate in the streets on Sunday. He even told residents which shops had 80%-off sales, so they could buy new clothes for the street party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His comments go against World Health Organization (WHO) social distancing advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tanzania stopped publishing figures of daily confirmed cases three weeks ago, raising questions about the true scale of its Covid-19 problem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United States said earlier this month that Tanzania was widely under-reporting the spread of the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President John Magufuli has also urged the nation to hold three days of prayer from yesterday until Sunday to show gratitude for an alleged decline in cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opposition MP Zitto Kabwe criticised that move, saying it was not true that the number of cases in the country was declining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There have been 509 reported cases in the country and 21 reported deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior politician has sparked disbelief among Tanzanians by claiming that coronavirus in the country &#8220;has ended&#8221;. Paul Makonda, regional commissioner of the country&#8217;s biggest city Dar es Salaam, called on the public to celebrate in the streets on Sunday. He even told residents which shops had 80%-off sales, so they could buy new clothes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":15457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-15454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15458,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15454\/revisions\/15458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}