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COVID-19 RESPONSE TANZANIA WEEKLY UPDATE #3 27April-2 May, 2020 Situation Update As of 2nd May there are 480 confirmed COVID-19 cases including16 deaths; case fatality rate (CFR) is 3.8%. 375 of the cases including 13 deaths are in Tanzania Mainland and 105 cases including three deaths in Zanzibar. 6 more regions have reported cases in Mainland, making 24 out of 26 regions of Tanzania Mainland to have reported at least a case of COVID-19 with the majority of cases in Dar- es Salaam city. Source of infection of most of the cases reported cannot be established due to lack of appropriate information sharing, hence community transmission cannot be ruled out in Dar es Salaam City in Tanzania Mainland and Unguja-Zanzibar where a cumulative total of 220*** and 98 respectively have been reported. There is no new COVID-19 case reported yet as of today morning May 4th. The last report on 2nd May 2020, one death was reported in Zanzibar. COVID-19 one case occurred on 30/04/2020;the total number of COVID-19 deaths is five (5). The reported death, was a frontline health care worker, male and 54 years. In Zanzibar, health facilities are stretched beyond limit, and some workers are affected with the virus. WHO is in dialogue with Government to extend support to health providers. Challenges: Generally, the response in Tanzania has been facing several challenges including lack of transparency and health harming communications, leading to rumours and fear of the real situation. Recently Tanzania (for the wrong reasons) has hit media attention in both the OCHA media sweep; https://unocha.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7931f e33ce8729d1b6e34781&id=025bb5596f&e=f77c0b858d and the New York Times today; https://www.nytimes.com /2020/05/04/world/coronavirus-news.html Map showing number of COVID 19 reported case par region location
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COVID-19 RESPONSE TANZANIA WEEKLY UPDATE #3 27April-2 May, 2020
Situation Update As of 2nd May there are 480 confirmed COVID-19 cases including16 deaths; case fatality rate (CFR) is 3.8%. 375 of the cases including 13 deaths are in Tanzania Mainland and 105 cases including three deaths in Zanzibar.
6 more regions have reported cases in Mainland, making 24 out of 26 regions of Tanzania Mainland to have reported at least a case of COVID-19 with the majority of cases in Dar- es Salaam city. Source of infection of most of the cases reported cannot be established due to lack of appropriate information sharing, hence community transmission cannot be ruled out in Dar es Salaam City in Tanzania Mainland and Unguja-Zanzibar where a cumulative total of 220*** and 98 respectively have been reported.
There is no new COVID-19 case reported yet as of today morning May 4th. The last report on 2nd May 2020, one death was reported in Zanzibar. COVID-19 one case occurred on 30/04/2020;the total number of COVID-19 deaths is five (5). The reported death, was a frontline health care worker, male and 54 years.
In Zanzibar, health facilities are stretched beyond limit,and some workers are affected with the virus. WHO isin dialogue with Government to extend support to health providers.
Challenges: Generally, the response in Tanzania has been facing several challenges including lack of transparency and health harming communications, leading to rumours and fear of the real situation.
Recently Tanzania (for the wrong reasons) has hit media attention in both the OCHA media sweep; https://unocha.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7931f e33ce8729d1b6e34781&id=025bb5596f&e=f77c0b858d and the New York Times today; https://www.nytimes.com /2020/05/04/world/coronavirus-news.html
Map showing number of COVID 19 reported casepar region location
KEY COVID 19 ACTIVITY ACHIEVEMENTS
To curb the impact of Covid 19 on children and caregivers Save the Children has rolledout training to Community mentors and facili-tators in 8 community on how to contain thespread of Covid 19 and also how parents canrelate to their children without being violent. A total of 88 mentors and facilitators in 8 shehias were reached.
Save the Children attended the Regional RCCEmeeting with WHO and select government anddistricts government counterparts, to support development of Covid19 work plan with a budget. Currently Dar es salaam has no budgetted work plan.
Save the Children provided technical support to themental Health and Psychosocial Support forum onalternative way(s) to help children with distress andimprove awareness on anxiety and fear triggered byCovid-19.Supported the District to develop a child protection work plan for host community with a specialemphasis on street children
Save the Children Lishe Endelevu program support-ed the Regional authorities to conduct Covid 19 awareness in two councils of Kondoa and KondoaTC by training health facilities at ward level. A total of 2,365 people were reached in both councils.
Save the Children used PA outreach for Covid-19 awareness raising to all 7 wards of Mbozi district. Shared VAC Prevention incidence reporting, distr-ibuted and posted IEC materials with COVID 19 messages to about 22,764 people. More than 9,000 people were reached in local markets (Mnadani) at Idiwili wards. Under our ECCD program, Save the Children has developed the final transcript of audio for first parenting session with Covid 19 messages.
As the government continues to encourage religiousgatherings,Save the Children has continued raising community awareness on hygiene, safety messagesand social distancing in Malinyi and Ulanga Districts.More emphasis was given to churches, markets andother mass gathering in rural areas where awarenessis still very limited. We have also continued to integrate COVID-19 aware-ness in the cooking and WASH demonstration. An estimated total of 22,859 people were reached.
District Medical Officer practising proper step by step hand washingas trained by Save the Children in Kondoa
KEY COVID 19 ADAPTATION PLAN AND ACTIVITY ACHIEVEMENTSBelow is an updated Tanzania CO portfolio adaptation tracker.
Zanzibar
Dar es Salaam
Kibondo Burundian Refugee response
Morogoro
Dodoma
Songwe
Descrip�on Award DonorApproved
(Member/Donor) USD
Awai�ng for approval -USD
Total-USD
TZA_Educa�on for girls in SC Sweden various 36,604 36,604 TZA Lishe Endelevu Nutri�on Program
USAID148,576 148,576
TZA_EC_Economic and Fiscal Governance in Tanzania
EC-DEVCO940
TZA_Sida_2019-2021_Core funding Sida24,975 24,975
TZA_Comic Relief Educa�on Comic Relief 9,398 9,398 SCI RO NAF 3,500 3,500 TZA COVID 19 HUMANITARIAN La�er Day Saints 200,000 200,000 COVID Central Fund SCI 300,031 300,031 Zanzibar COVID response DFID 338,779 338,779
Total 414,595 648,208 1,061,863
Covid-19 Pipeline (CN submi�ed only)
Covid 19 confirmed funding
Por�olio adapta�on (Exis�ng Awards)
Save the Children and UNICEF are in discussion with MOEST on activation of Education Cluster for Education in Emergency that will among other things strengthen coordination and collaboration among actors in response to COVID-19 Education. Efforts are being made in order for Save the Children and UNICEF to play their co-lead role.
Save the Children continues to work through TEN/MET secretariat to facilitate establishment of Education in Emergency Working Group. Save the Children is lobbying for a space in the government-led COVID-19 National Education Task Force to represent TEN/MET members’ recommendations.
Save the Children continues to air cartoons to conveymessages regarding child protection and COVID -19, last week the second cartoon was aired by ITV, a pri-vate station with the most watched evening news bulletinin Tanzania. The cartoon also went viral on social mediawhen was shared by with most NGOs and activists.ITV news bulletin is also live broadcasted via its YouTube channel which has more than 496K subscribers and Facebook live where as the page has a total of 2,325,369 page followers.
Advocacy Campaign Communication and Media
Name Value (USD)
New Secured Funding
200K Kibondo Funding (La�er Day Saints)
$ 200,000
Swedish $35k realloca�on for COVID educa�on
$ 35,000
Pending
HNWI fundraising TBD
GCF Refugee response funding
$ 200,000
COVID Central Fund $ 300,031
FFO top up for COVID $ 500,000
DFID Zanzibar COVID response
$ 338,779
Progress to $1.9M Fundraising goal
Save the Children staff raising awareness tocommunity members who attended a Sunday Massat Ifakara Roman Catholic Church, Morogoro region.
Will they be safe after Corona?
Funding Opportunity Tracker
For Imediate Communication Please contact;
Nuria Mshare - Communications and Media Email: [email protected] Mobile: +255 (0) 677 070 643
Jesse Orgenes - Response Team LeadEmail: [email protected] Mobile +255 (0) 677 057 291
Peter Walsh - Country Director TanzaniaEmail: [email protected] Mobile +255 (0) 786 197 191
