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'He's OK': Tanzania denies President Magufuli incapacitated

Tanzania President John Magufuli. [Reuters]

Tanzania’s President John Magufuli is in good health and working normally, two officials said on Friday, after reports that he had been flown to Kenya and then India in a critical condition with COVID-19.

Magufuli, 61, is Africa’s most prominent coronavirus sceptic. He has not been seen in public since Feb. 27.

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