By Jeff Kinyanjui
The Tanzania
Football Federation (TFF) has issued a circular instructing all football
players and
officials to avoid the usual shaking of hands before games
kick-off.
This is in an
effort to avoid the spread of the deadly Coronavirus with TFF advising
the players to just wave at each other instead of shaking hands.
TFF says it has acted under the guidance of Tanzania Ministry of Health.
There are currently 93,574 confirmed cases and 3,204 deaths from the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak as of March 4, 2020.
51,059 have been reported to have recovered from the deadly virus worldwide while 6772 are in critical condition.
There have been very few cases in Africa with only three official cases. The low rate continues to puzzle health experts.
"Our biggest
concern continues to be the potential for Covid-19 to spread in
countries with weaker health systems," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the
head of the World Health Organisation, told African Union health
ministers gathered in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa on February
22, 2020.
"Perhaps the virus
doesn't spread in the African ecosystem, we don't know," said Professor
Yazdan Yazdanpanah, head of the infectious diseases department at Bichat
hospital in Paris.
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