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.

Lol....

The virus is in the test - African's shine your eyes!!!

(Poor man no dey test negative........cos poor man no dey get tested)

No wonder we having positive cases to negatives cases in weeks here! The test kit itself needs to be tested of covid-19 before usage.

Hahahaahahaha.... This is epic. Just when you think you've seen it all

haha haha, this is wonderful

waiting kanu no go see for kemi hand

No accurate result. How can a goat and pawpaw test positive for Coronavirus.

Something is fishy about this coronavirus of a thing.

One would wonder how a virus could be contracted through droplets (virus in the air)

Many Many Mysteries!
People should be very careful with the so called Vaccine. That may just be the Virus!

If animals can test positive that means Covid-19 was actually eaten from China and not necessarily a lab-test-gone-wrong. My thesis though

Nwodosis:
No wonder we having positive cases to negatives cases in weeks here! The test kit itself needs to be tested of covid-19 before usage.

All test kits arent d same. Countries who are in a hurry to acquire quick test kits end up with faulty ones as was d case with d UK and Netherlands. Nigeria is still using the ones donated by Jack Ma and have mentioned severely dey wont b using d quick test kits

It's really getting funnier and scarier. Imagine having a positive result when you don't have the virus. Imagine the fear and heartache for the people around you. Nigeria should double-check all test kits that come in, but no, we won't hear.