Ex-Tanzania President Mkapa Died Of Malaria, Not COVID-19 – Family
Personnel of The Tanzania People’s Defence Force salute the coffin of late former Tanzanian president Benjamin Mkapa during the national funeral at Uhuru Stadium in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on July 26, 2020. AFPFormer Tanzanian president Benjamin Mkapa was suffering from malaria and died of a heart attack, his family said Sunday, scotching rumours that he succumbed to coronavirus.
President John Magufuli attended the funeral mass along with his vice president and prime minister at the national stadium. Officially, Tanzania has logged a mere 509 COVID-19 cases to date whereas neighbours such as Kenya and DR Congo have respectively registered more than 16,000 and more than 8,000.
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