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In June 2020, the President John Magufuli declared that Tanzania was free of Covid-19 due to prayers.
In February 2021, he admitted that Tanzania had an outbreak (https://www.africanews.com/2021/02/22/after-who-pressure-tanzania-s-leader-admits-country-has-covid-cases/)
A mutation with the most divergent strains was found among travellers from Tanzania.
In March 2021, the same President died. Rumour had it that he died of Covid-19.
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2) “This is another variant we have to be especially vigilant towards. It may be as infectious and immune evasive as the widespread B.1.1.7 and B.1.351 variants, in addition to potential reinfection capabilities, as they carry similar mutations”
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) April 21, 2021
4) “That is partly due to the new total blackout of information during the pandemic from that country. Official data would have that no infections have occurred in Tanzania since May 2020, which is clearly not the case.
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) April 21, 2021
6) I’ll let the title speak for itself in this other piece by @WmHaseltine. https://t.co/nkCDP97TaY pic.twitter.com/9XoRh0M6BW
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) April 21, 2021
8) “It evolved from an entirely different source, the A lineage, a finding that substantially expands our understanding of the repertoire of mutants we must be prepared to contend with in the months and years ahead.”
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) April 21, 2021
10) “Nonetheless, the new variant is of interest and of possible concern as it carries a number of mutations in the spike protein characteristic of other bonafide variants of concern from the B.1 lineage.
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) April 21, 2021
12) “No one B.1 variant carries all these mutations, but each must confer some selective advantage to the A lineage variant.”
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) April 21, 2021
Translation: Tanzania variant (from A lineage) somehow has converged somehow with the bad mutations from B. Convergent evolution usually bad.
14) Sidenote— how did Tanzania evolve a nasty little variant? Because Tanzania had a #COVID19 denial President. No data on any Covid left Tanzania last year. ZERO data. A large outbreak is suspected. Their Covid denial President? Dead. https://t.co/yZGTUB5UtX
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) April 21, 2021
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https://t.co/PgWv1TR92C https://t.co/Li1ohBYHXz pic.twitter.com/LxVe79URN6
— simonthong aka kitty poo (@KittyPo80176717) April 22, 2021
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-56437852
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