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Zanzibar improves capacity to detect health threats

In March 2020, when COVID-19 cases were identified in Tanzania the Government closed all education institutions, suspended sports, political rallies and international flights. However, since June the Government started easing restrictions.

The health system in Tanzania is integrating COVID-19 preventive services at districts’ health facilities and continuing other essential services, therefore moving from a centralized to a decentralized response for a better reach at community level.

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Update COVID-19 19 July 2020

19 July 2020 — Forty-three (43) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 3214 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases to one thousand, five hundred and eighty-two (1582). To date, eight hundred and thirty-four (834) patients have recovered and been discharged, including fifteen (15) in the past 24 hours. The number of active cases is seven hundred and forty-three (743) and five (5) deaths. 

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Update COVID-19 18 July 2020

18 July 2020 — Forty-four (54) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 3232 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases to one thousand, five hundred and thirty-nine (1539). To date, eight hundred and nineteen (819) patients have recovered and been discharged, including eight (8) in the past 24 hours. The number of active cases is seven hundred and fifteen (715) and five (5) deaths. The 5th death is a woman of 88 years old from Nyamasheke District, under lockdown.

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Update COVID-19 17 July 2020

17 July 2020 — Twelve (12) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 3432 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases to one thousand, four hundred and eighty-five (1485). To date, eight hundred and eleven (811) patients have recovered and been discharged, including forty-one (41) in the past 24 hours. The number of active cases is six hundred and seventy (670) and four (4) deaths. 

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WHO Representative in Mauritius speaking about COVID-19 during the 5th Nelson Mandel...

Dr Laurent Musango, WHO Representative was invited to make a presentation on COVID-19 at the Mahatma Gandhi Institute in Moka on 15 July 2020 on the occasion of the 5th Nelson Mandela Memorial Lecture 2020. During his presentation, Dr L. Musango elaborated on the situation on COVID-19 at the global, African and local levels to 50 participants, social distancing requirement obliged and some 650 online participants. ‘Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to accelerate with 230,000 cases reported to WHO in a single day’, said Dr L. Musango, who added, ‘all countries are at risk.  However, not all countries have been affected in the same way.’    WHO Representative in Mauritius pointed out that South Africa is too much affected with COVID-19 as compared to rest of the countries in the African Region.  He also indicated that WHO is following on a number of indicators to evaluate the performance of countries in fighting COVID-19.  These indicators include Case Fatality Rate (CFR), Proportion of Mortality of Health Workers and Capacity Testing, among others.
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Update COVID-19 16 July 2020

16 July 2020 — Thirty-eight (38) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 5556 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases to one thousand, four hundred and seventy-three (1473). To date, seven hundred and seventy (770) patients have recovered and been discharged, including eighteen (18) in the past 24 hours. The number of active cases is six hundred and ninety-nine (699) and four (4) deaths. 

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