DISAPPEARING DURING COVID: One quietly slipped out of Fiji on a Fiji Airways chartered flight to Singapore. Another, President of Tanzania and COVID denier, is critically ill in a Kenyan hospital after catching COVID

Grieving relatives of Covid-19 victims, health experts and opposition politicians in Tanzania have accused President John Magufuli of causing thousands of deaths in the East African country and undermining the fight against the pandemic across the continent. Magufuli has denied the local spread of Covid-19 in Tanzania, discouraged the mention of the disease by health workers, rejected most conventional measures in favour of prayer and said vaccines are dangerous, without offering any evidence. In Fiji, Opposition are calling on Bainimarama to hand over nine plus Cabinet portfolios Aiyaz Khaiyum is holding to acting Ministers