Tanzanian President, John Magufuli has questioned the accuracy of imported Covid-19 testing kits, after they tested positive on food samples and animal samples.
This follows after a food sample containing the pawpaw fruit and one sample taken from a goat all tested positive.
Magufuli said the tests have technical errors.
The president, who has in the past asked Tanzania to ‘pray’ the virus away, revealed that he asked his security forces to check the quality of the kits.
He said they got random samples from pawpaw, goat, sheep and assigned them human names and ages.
The samples were submitted for testing at Tanzania’s laboratory, with the lab technicians unaware of their origins.
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| Tanzania President John Magufuli Questions Accuracy Of Imported Covid-19 Test After Pawpaw Fruit Sample Tests Positive |
Shockingly, the pawpaw and goat samples tested positive for Covid-19.
Magufuli then said it is likely that some people who test as positive using those testing kits, might not be positive after all.
“There is something happening. I said before we should not accept that every aid is meant to be good for this nation,” Magufuli said.
Meanwhile, Magufuli has made plans to import a herbal remedy for Covid-19, which is being touted by the president of Madagascar, Andry Rajoelina.
“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 herbal concoction is called “Covid Organics” and was made by the Malagasy Institute for Applied Research, from Artemisia, a plant which is cultivated in Madagascar.
President Rajoelina is claiming that the concoction has cured his people of Covid-19 despite the lack of scientific evidence to back his claim.
