Tanzanian President Magufuli orders probe on COVID-19 kits after goat and pawpaw test positive for Coronavirus
Tanzanian president, John Magufuli on Sunday ordered a probe on the country’s coronavirus testing kits after samples taken from a goat and pawpaw tested positive.
Speaking at an event in Chato in the northwest of Tanzania, Magufuli
said the COVID-19 testing kits which had been imported from abroad had
“technical errors”.
The president said he had instructed Tanzanian security forces to
check the quality of the kits, who then randomly obtained several
non-human samples, including from a pawpaw, a goat, and a sheep, but had
assigned them human names and ages.
According to him, these samples were then submitted to Tanzania’s
laboratory to test for the coronavirus, with the lab technicians left
deliberately unaware of their origins.
President Magufuli later disclosed that samples from the pawpaw and
the goat tested positive for COVID-19, adding it was likely that some
people were being tested positive when in fact they were not infected by
the Coronavirus.
“We extracted a sample from a goat which turned positive. This tells you that something is not adding up,” he stated.
“Are we now supposed to quarantine goats and fruits?” President Magufuli questioned.
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