Tanzania officials deny Magufuli sick with COVID-19

Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa says President John Magufuli is ‘around, healthy, working hard’ amid COVID allegations.

Tanzania’s President John Magufuli is in good health and working normally, two officials said, after reports he flew abroad in critical condition with COVID-19. Magufuli, 61, is Africa’s most prominent coronavirus sceptic. He has not been seen in public since February 27. Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu, who left for Belgium after disputing his election defeat to Magufuli last year, has said the president was flown to the private Nairobi Hospital in neighbouring Kenya and then to India in a coma.