(ANSA) - ROME, JANUARY 27 - The president of Tanzania, JohnMagufuli, warned against the import of Covid vaccinants, stating that they could harm the population.
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"The Ministry of Health should be careful, they shouldn't rush to try these vaccines without research, not all vaccines are important for us, we should be careful. We shouldn't be used as 'caves,'" Magufuli said.
"Vaccinations are dangerous.
If the white man had been able to invent vaccines, he would have had to find them for AIDS, cancer and tuberculosis by now," he added.
The Tanzanian president urged his compatriots to continue taking precautions, but saying that the best way to deal with the virus is through prayers and traditional medicine, including steam inhalation.
"Many countries have a lockdown, but in Tanzania there are no confinement plans and we will never introduce it, because our God is alive and will continue to protect us", said Magufuli, a Catholic but who did not express himself on the alarm launched by the Bishops' Conference of the Tanzanias on the increase in funerals due to "a new wave of the spread of the virus", as he said in a letter yesterday.
Last June, Magufuli declared Tanzania "coronavirus free".
His government has not published official data relating to the pandemic for months.
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