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Zanzibar vice-president laid to rest
Seif Sharif Hamad鈥檚 funeral took place at his home village in Pemba Island
Mr Hamad was the most prominent politician in Tanzania to have openly declared that he had contracted Covid-19. No official reason has been given for his death. He was 77 years-old
South Africa has started its rolling out of the Covid-19 vaccine from Johnson and Johnson following the suspension of an earlier plan to use the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.
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(Image: Seif Sharif Hamad. Credit: Getty Images)
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