Dar es Salaam, 27 January, 2021 / 4:13 pm (ACI Africa).
Months after Tanzania’s President John Pombe Magufuli declared the nation free of COVID-19, Catholic Bishops in the East African nation have urged caution amid a new COVID-19 wave in several countries saying “is not an island.”
In their Tuesday, January 26 statement obtained by ACI Africa, members of the Tanzania Episcopal Conference (TEC) urge Tanzanians to “take precautions.”
“There is a new wave of coronavirus infections and several countries have confirmed that they are going through a difficult period in the spread of the coronavirus and the occurrence of fatalities,” TEC members say.
They add, “Our country is not an island ...We must defend ourselves, take precautions, and cry out to God with all our might so that this scourge will not overtake us.”
The Bishops call on Tanzanians to double their efforts in the fight against the virus “using all the spiritual, physical, scientific and social arms.”