John Magufuli, Tanzanian president, has expressed worries
over the testing kits imported into the country after samples conducted on them
using both goat and pawpaw “tested positive” for COVID-19.
According to Aljazeera, Magufuli, who spoke on Sunday at an
event in Chato, northwestern part of the country, said he had ordered
investigation into the quality of the testing kits.
It was gathered that they had randomly obtained several
non-human samples, including from a pawpaw, a goat and a sheep.
The animals were consequently assigned human names and ages
before they were being forwarded to the country’s laboratory to be tested for
the virus with the lab technicians left deliberately unaware of their origins.
According to the president, results from the laboratory had
shown the pawpaw and goat tested positive for the virus. Magufuli, however, said there’s possibility
of “technical errors” with the test.
He said the development was a pointer to the possibility of
people being declared to have tested positive to the virus when they are
actually not infected with the virus.
“There is something happening. I said before we should not
accept that every aid is meant to be good for this nation,” he said.
The development comes about the same time when the president
had reportedly ordered for “Covid Organics”, a herbal medicine touted as
potential cure for the novel disease — though without scientific evidence —
from Madagascar.
“I have already written to Madagascar’s president and we
will soon dispatch a plane to fetch the medicine so that Tanzania can also
benefit from it,” he said.
The country has so far confirmed 480 cases of the killer
virus with 16 deaths, according to worldometers.info.
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