Headlines: Tanzania's president orders probe into 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 goat and pawpaw test positive. Speaking at an event in Chato in the Northwest of Tanzania, Magufuli said the testing kits which were imported from abroad had "technical errors".
The president said he had instructed the security agency to check the quality of the testing kits, who then randomly obtained several non- human samples, including from a goat and pawpaw but had assigned them human names and ages.
According to him, these samples were taken to the laboratory to test for the coronavirus, with the lab technicians left deliberately unaware of their origins.
President Magufuli later disclosed that samples from pawpaw and the goat tested positive for coronavirus, 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 said.
"Are we now supposed to quarantine goats and fruits?" The president questioned.
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