{"id":82313,"date":"2020-07-07T10:35:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T02:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=82313"},"modified":"2020-07-07T10:37:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T02:37:04","slug":"covid-19-tanzania-shuts-centres-handling-coronavirus-patients-after-significant-drop-in-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=82313","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Tanzania shuts centres handling coronavirus patients after significant drop in cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Tanzania-shuts-centres-handling-coronavirus-patients-999868?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/929\/92971255.295.jpg\" alt=\"'Coronavirus is heading towards an end in Tanzania'\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>&#8216;Coronavirus is heading towards an end in Tanzania&#8217;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DAR ES SALAAM, July 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Tanzania has closed most centres designated to handle Covid-19 patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government said that a significant drop in the number of coronavirus infections led to the closure of the treatment centres across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, Health Minister Ummy Mwalimu said there are now only 11 centres, including private health centres, that are open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are from the 85 centres that had initially been set up across the country to isolate Covid-19 patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The health minister said: &#8220;We thank God that&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3337\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Coronavirus<\/a>&nbsp;is heading towards an end in Tanzania.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She went on to caution that people should not relax, as there could be a second wave of infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister said residents could now continue visiting the centres for general treatment, as they are no longer used for isolation of Covid-19 patients<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current rate of infection, number of patients and deaths in Tanzania is not known, as the government does not regularly release updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last update was given in June when Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa told parliament that there were only 66 active coronavirus cases in the country. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Coronavirus is heading towards an end in Tanzania&#8217; DAR ES SALAAM, July 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Tanzania has closed most centres designated to handle Covid-19 patients. The government said that a significant drop in the number of coronavirus infections led to the closure of the treatment centres across the country. On Friday, Health Minister Ummy Mwalimu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":82316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82313"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}