President Samia Suluhu Gets Covid-19 Vaccine
Tanzania’s President, Samia Suluhu Hassan, has received her Covid-19 dose of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine as Tanzania begins a mass vaccination campaign.
Gathogo Wanjiru 
President Samia Suluhu who succeeded the late John Magufuli has reversed course, urging Tanzanians to follow health guidelines as the country battles a third wave of the virus.
“We are in the third phase of the pandemic. We should take all precautions,” she said at a meeting with media editors in the statehouse in Dar es Salaam, the commercial capital.
Tanzania received just over one million doses from COVAX a week ago and appears to be gradually embracing the fight against the world pandemic.
Tanzania was one of four African countries that refused to vaccinate their citizens (along with Burundi, Eritrea, and Madagascar).
According to a Ministry of Health statement on July 22, the country now hopes to vaccinate 60% of its 58 million-person population, with a focus on health workers.
There is no explanation for why that percentage was chosen, nor is there a timetable for achieving this goal.
