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2020 coronavirus pandemic in Tanzania | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Tanzania |
Arrival date | 16 March 2020 (2 weeks and 4 days) |
Confirmed cases | 20 |
Recovered | 2 |
Deaths | 1 |
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was confirmed to have reached Tanzania in March 2020.
On 16 March, the first case in Tanzania was confirmed in Arusha.[1][2] It was a 46-year-old Tanzanian who had come to Arusha from Belgium.[3]
On 18 March, two other cases in Tanzania were reported.[4] On 19 March two new cases were reported, bringing the total to six. Five cases were located in capital city of Dar es Salaam with the other in Zanzibar.[5]
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