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Tanzania yields to UN, lenders calls on Covid data
Monday June 14 2021
Recently, Tanzania allowed foreign missions and companies to access vaccines for their staff, offering a glimmer of hope in dealing with the global pandemic in a country once cited for Covid denialism.
By LUKE ANAMI
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.
The assurance came after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on June 9 pushed Dodoma to start publicising Covid-19 infections and measures, with a threat to withhold a $571 million loan.
“In order to justify emergency financing in the context of the pandemic, you need to publish relevant public-health data. Publication of such data would be a precondition moving ahead,” said IMF’s resident representative in Tanzania Jens Reinke...
Tanzania yields to UN, lenders calls on Covid data
Monday June 14 2021
Recently, Tanzania allowed foreign missions and companies to access vaccines for their staff, offering a glimmer of hope in dealing with the global pandemic in a country once cited for Covid denialism.
By LUKE ANAMI
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.
The assurance came after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on June 9 pushed Dodoma to start publicising Covid-19 infections and measures, with a threat to withhold a $571 million loan.
“In order to justify emergency financing in the context of the pandemic, you need to publish relevant public-health data. Publication of such data would be a precondition moving ahead,” said IMF’s resident representative in Tanzania Jens Reinke...