Source Aljazeera news

Tanzania president questions coronavirus kits after animal test
President Magufuli says tests were found to be faulty after goat, sheep and pawpaw samples test positive for COVID-19.


Tanzania's President John Magufuli has dismissed imported coronavirus testing kits as faulty, saying they returned positive results on samples taken from a goat and a pawpaw.


Magufuli made the remarks during an event in Chato in northwestern Tanzania on Sunday. He said there were "technical errors" with the tests.

The president, whose government has already drawn criticism for being secretive about the coronavirus outbreak and has previously asked Tanzanians to pray the coronavirus away, said he had instructed Tanzanian security forces to check the quality of the kits.

They had randomly obtained several non-human samples, including from a pawpaw, a goat and a sheep, but had assigned them human names and ages.

These samples were then submitted to Tanzania's laboratory to test for the coronavirus, with the lab technicians left deliberately unaware of their origins.

Samples from the pawpaw and the goat tested positive for COVID-19, the president said, adding this meant it was likely that some people were being tested positive when, in fact, they were not infected by the coronavirus.

"There is something happening. I said before we should not accept that every aid is meant to be good for this nation," Magufuli said, adding the kits should be investigated.

On Saturday, Magufuli announced that he had placed an order for a herbal treatment for the coronavirus touted by the president of 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 herbal remedy, called "Covid Organics" and prepared by the Malagasy Institute for Applied Research, is made out of Artemisia, a plant cultivated on the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar.

Despite a lack of scientific evidence, President Andry Rajoelina of Madagascar claimed that the remedy has already cured some Madagascans of COVID-19. Children returning to school have been required to take it.


https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/05/tanzania-president-questions-coronavirus-kits-animal-test-200503174100809.html

This got me laughing
Paw-paw of all things.

I believe there is something behind this pandemic and African leaders are blind to see the true picture of going back to colonia era by America and Chinese....
If you try to use your system or idea to tackle this covid-19 within your country you will surprise nothing much about this so call coronavirus but the WHO will create fear in you that will make you believe you're inferior to your self

This is wake up call for African leaders
Please do your things according to your system and culture

can you imagine?
and our leaders in Africa still believes there's no cure for covid-19 because they want to pleased they're white masters from Chinese and America...
may the Lord help us in Africa

Quite009:
can you imagine?
and our leaders in Africa still believes there's no cure for covid-19 because they want to pleased they're white masters from Chinese and America...
may the Lord help us in Africa

I begin to suspect WHO since the day they said Africa are going to suffer much for covid-19, i said there's something behind this pandemic that they don't want us to know
Can you imagine how WHO are condemning Madagascar cov-organic without even give it a try and they said people are dying too much of coronavirus?
Africa should wake up

shamsin6300:
This got me laughing
Paw-paw of all things.

i wonder too, the message has passed to Nigeria government before the arrival of the Chinese covid-19 test kit, the young man from Italy said Nigeria should not receive the kit but our government doesn't listen because they too like free things

shamsin6300:
This got me laughing
Paw-paw of all things.

It's not a laughing matter it is a true to digging about, our African leaders have to do something different to sure thing don't destroy our heritage

This is serious

Lol, this is serious.

Good idea by the president. That is called thinking outside the box

;DLittle wonder why the cases keep rising due to faulty test resuts.

People looking for a scientific background for the madagascan covid-organics should first tell us the scientific background behind the goat and papaya samples that WHO tested to be coronavirus positive.Pls tell Mr Buhari to follow in the footsteps of Tanzania and Burundi by kicking this liars and destroyers from our beloved country Nigeria.The picture is becoming clearere by the day.