Coronavirus ‘removed’ from Tanzania due to the ‘powers of God:’ President

Tanzania is coronavirus free due to the power of prayer, according to the country’s president, six weeks after officials stopped updating statistics on the virus.

The number of infected people in Tanzania has stood at 509 for the past six weeks, even while opposition leaders and neighboring countries voiced concerns of a mounting health crisis in the East African country.

Despite Johns Hopkins still reporting the 509 cases in the country, with the unofficial number likely far higher, Tanzania’s President John Magufuli now claims the country to be free of the virus.

“Corona in our country has been removed by the powers of God,” President John Magufuli declared at a church service, Reuters reported. Read more