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?fbclid=IwAR29D2lgrOt5uuv2ixLsPVfSIin3ArMk1wr1ndSSxayDbMQ7SfjhFqthqUA

These are confusing times.

Wish our country could do the same research before usage but here we see all gift as gifts from above

This could b true, because I was wondering how could a tiger in a zoo in NYC test positive to corona virus

Chinese is doing well

modsfucker:
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?fbclid=IwAR29D2lgrOt5uuv2ixLsPVfSIin3ArMk1wr1ndSSxayDbMQ7SfjhFqthqUA

I love an active leaders that reason independently, and unlike what we have here

Critical Leaders.... They think very fast...

When you jab those "testing" kits into your nose, that is how you contact the corona virus. It is already in the testing kits.

This is a sign that most of the positive results in Nigeria are fake.

malawian0000001:
When you jab those "testing" kits into your nose, that is how you contact the corona virus. It is already in the testing kits.

And the main reason is to reduce the world population

the kits are faulty. but due to corruption in Nigeria, d avenue will b used to misappropriate funds.

70% of reported cases in Nigeria aren't covid-19. The governors and NCDc DG are aware but greed will not allow them.

Mutemenot:
Wish our country could do the same research before usage but here we see all gift as gifts from above

Our country will not do that because our country politicians will get fund from abroad if they increase the number of positive cases they record.

Let us stop limiting our views about Nigeria to the things we hear in the news. There are so many fakeness and lies going on underground

I've also thought of this to be the exact reason why 80% of every test conducted in Kano turned out to be positive.

Federal Government might have moved the testing kits donated by Jack Ma Alibaba Company to Kano and now, this is what the get as the result.

This Government is a failure at all side giving that even after many countries(Spain precisely) complained about this testing kits to be faulty, government still moved on to use on people without trying to check what all these other countries complained of.

We shall all Survive this I Pray!!

Mutemenot:
Wish our country could do the same research before usage but here we see all gift as gifts from above

When they have seen business in it? You should know better that they are saving for 2023.

Seems Nigerians case is still better lol

We aren't using the same testing kits. This why Nigerians need to patient with NCDC instead of running them down at any given opportunity. The test being conducted here are of the highest WHO standards using a semi-automated real time PCR process that delivers results between 3 and 8 hours. That's why it usually takes about a day from collection of samples to testing and delivery of results.

Several African countries are using rapid testing kits, which though cheaper and faster, has a very high possibility of getting a wrong result if contaminated. Here's a case in point:

https://lethbridgenewsnow.com/2020/05/03/rapid-test-for-covid-19-recalled-after-health-canada-expresses-concerns/