Tanzania's President John Pombe Magufuli said on Wednesday that he is not planning to impose public isolation measures because God will protect the people from COVID-19.
Magufuli added that local prescriptions such as inhalation of steam are better than vaccinations.
During a speech in the west of the country, Magufuli made statements inconsistent with the global scientific consensus and recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) said, "vaccines are not good if they were good eggs were found a vaccine for HIV virus (the virus that causes HIV / AIDS)" deficiency.
The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has "strongly" called on Tanzania to release its latest data on the outbreak, as the African Report revealed.
The last detailed figures, published last April, reported 480 cases and 21 deaths (it's island territory Zanzibar later added 29 more cases in early May.
The Tanzanian president later provided limited data on patients with Covid-19 admitted to hospitals and health centers, saying the number of patients in two large hospitals in the commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, has dropped from 228 to 18, although he didn't give a time-frame for these figures. He also gave figures for a few other hospitals around the country.
Since then, government officials have provided some data on three occasions but in a way that makes it hard to draw comparisons.
The country's prime minister Kassim Majaliwa late May said the number of patients in the two main hospitals in Dar es Salaam had dropped to only two. The total national tally from the hospitals he mentioned was 32.
On her part, the country's health minister Ummy Mwalimu early June told a gathering in the coastal region of Tanga that the two main hospitals treating coronavirus patients in the country only had four patients.
She mentioned other regions that had no cases but didn't give the total number nationally or say whether more deaths had been reported.
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