Posted on 05/05/2020 2:27:31 PM PDT by mkleesma
Tanzania has suspended the head of its national health laboratory in charge of testing for the coronavirus and ordered an investigation, a day after President John Magufuli questioned the tests’ accuracy.
Magufuli said on Sunday the imported test kits were faulty as they had returned positive results on a goat and a pawpaw — among several non-human samples submitted for testing, with technicians left deliberately unaware of their origins.
He did not say where the kits had been imported from or why the authorities had been suspicious of the results.
Catherine Sungura, acting head of communications at the ministry of health, said in a statement on Monday the director of the laboratory and its quality assurance manager had been immediately suspended “to pave way for the investigation”.
Sungura said a 10-person committee had been formed to investigate the laboratory’s operations, including its process of collecting and testing samples.
On Sunday, Magufuli also fired the head of the government Medical Stores Department, which is in charge of distributing medical supplies and equipment to government hospitals, but gave no reason.
As of Monday, Tanzania had recorded 480 cases of COVID-19 and 18 deaths, according to a Reuters tally based on government and World Health Organization data.
Unlike most other African countries, Tanzania sometimes goes for days without offering updates, with the last bulletin on cases on Wednesday.
COVID-19 infections and fatalities reported across Africa have been relatively low compared with the United States, parts of Asia and Europe. But Africa also has extremely low levels of testing, with rates of only around 500 per million people.
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Magufuli is the best leader in the world.
Can’t wait to see Project Veritas expose on media tomorrow. This has been the greatest charade ever foisted on America. Not including Obama.
A goat and a pawpaw (fruit) tested positive for the Corona virus. EVERYTHING about this outbreak smacks of fraud and corruption.
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The real tragedy is that their government medical authorities were intentionally withholding treatment from the goat and the pawpaw tree leading to their early deaths. /s
Any rational , thinking man would question the reliability of the testing if it showed a goat and a pawpaw as covid-19 postive.
First question would be which country is the source,
and who paid for the testing equipment and how much ?
Next question is who is to benefit by positive results ?
The last question is how much money does Tanzania already owe the Chinese ? It could all be part of their "Thirty Year Plan" !
I’ve read some positive things about Tanzania’s President.If he is,in fact,a decent,intelligent and *honest* man he’d be the only such leader in all of Africa.
So, is it safe to pick them up and put them in your pocket?
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