Hospitalised for three weeks, the Vice President of Zanzibar, an East African semi-autonomous Island, which has played down news about COVID-19 pandemic, died after suffering the dreaded virus. The first vice president of Zanzibar, Seif Sharif Hamad, who led the island’s opposition for three decades, died Wednesday, the president said, after he had been hospitalised for over three weeks with coronavirus. Tanzania and its semi-autonomous island Zanzibar have played down the threat of the virus, which President John Magufuli claims has been fended off by prayer. However, Hamad’s…
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