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Tanzania yields to UN, lenders calls on Covid data

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People queue at the Kimara Bus Station in Dar es Salaam. Tanzania last reported its Covid numbers in April 2020. PHOTO | FILE | NMG

By  Luke Anami

Correspondent in Nairobi, Kenya

Nation Media Group

Tanzania announced that it will start releasing Covid-19 data amid pressure from the UN and Bretton Woods institutions to do so as a precondition for lending.

“Soon, the government will officially announce measures on how to address the Covid-19 pandemic in Tanzania,” government spokesman Gerson Msigwa told The EastAfrican.

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