Magufuli, the Science teacher who was a Covid-19 skeptic

 John Pombe Magufuli addressing a political rally in 2020. [Courtesy]

While the coronavirus pandemic bred distinguished leaders fighting to control its spread in their borders, it exposed Tanzania’s President John Magufuli’s eccentricities. 

Magufuli did not speak the scientific truth, instead, he dismissed the severity of coronavirus, stopped updating his country’s case numbers, mocked countries that imposed lockdowns to contain the disease and instead urged  Tanzania to rely on divine power against the virus.