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Officials in Tanzania are scratching their heads to explain how they spent 27 million Euros they collected from the European Union as part of EU Solidarity Fund meant to fight the Covid-19 pandemic in that country.
The money was supposed to be used to buy personal protective equipment (PPE), development of vaccines or medicines, pay for Covid tests, and other measures aimed at mitigating the spread of the virus. But authorities in Tanzania have not released official figures on the extent of the outbreak there.
Back in May 2020, President Magufuli declared the pandemic in Tanzania officially over and said people should resume normal lives without even having to wear facemasks.
He said God had solved the issue with a divine intervention after national prayers. “Corona cannot survive in the body of Christ; it will burn,” the president had said.
During an EU meeting earlier this month, EU member of parliament from Germany, David McAllister complained bitterly saying “the European Union granted 27 million Euros of European tax payer’s money to Tanzania to combat the effect of Covid, now we have a regime saying there is no Covid in the country with rather bizarre explanations.”
Read more here. (Africa Explained)
The money was supposed to be used to buy personal protective equipment (PPE), development of vaccines or medicines, pay for Covid tests, and other measures aimed at mitigating the spread of the virus. But authorities in Tanzania have not released official figures on the extent of the outbreak there.
Back in May 2020, President Magufuli declared the pandemic in Tanzania officially over and said people should resume normal lives without even having to wear facemasks.
He said God had solved the issue with a divine intervention after national prayers. “Corona cannot survive in the body of Christ; it will burn,” the president had said.
During an EU meeting earlier this month, EU member of parliament from Germany, David McAllister complained bitterly saying “the European Union granted 27 million Euros of European tax payer’s money to Tanzania to combat the effect of Covid, now we have a regime saying there is no Covid in the country with rather bizarre explanations.”
Read more here. (Africa Explained)
