Is Tanzania covid19 free? That is the question on many people's minds. The country on April 29 reported 509 confirmed cases of covid-19. No figures have been published since then. In late June, Tanzania’s president Magufuli announced the country was covid-19 free, unlike countries surrounding Tanzania like kenya where the numbers have seen an exponential growth. VOA's kenya-based reporter Ruud Elmendorp has been trapped in Tanzania for 4 months due to the coronavirus pandemic. He decided to do his own survey, and this is what he found.
