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Is Covid-19 denialism by leaders criminal?

Tanzania's former President John Pombe Magufuli addresses a campaign rally at Jangwani grounds in Dar es Salaam, October 23, 2015. [REUTERS/Sadi Said/File Photo]

Does the denialism that Covid-19 was a high risk to human life by the late Tanzanian John Pombe Magufuli just like former US President Donald Trump constitute a case for crime against humanity?

This is the question that was put to me over the weekend. It is a troubling question because it embeds in it beliefs, assumptions, half-truths and truisms.

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