Posted on 05/03/2020 7:25:59 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
DAR ES SALAAM - Coronavirus test kits used in Tanzania were dismissed as faulty by President John Magufuli on Sunday, because he said they had returned positive results on samples taken from a goat and a pawpaw.
Magufuli, whose government has already drawn criticism for being secretive about the coronavirus outbreak and has previously asked Tanzanians to pray the coronavirus away, said the kits had “technical errors”.
The COVID-19 testing kits had been imported from abroad, Magufuli said during an event in Chato in the north west of Tanzania, although he did not give further details.
The president 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.
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A pawpaw! LOL!
I like this guy!
A pawpaw, a goat, and a sheep walk into a bar...
President of Tanzania John Magufuli
You like him, you follow him a lot in the news ?
Reuters title looks like it was meant to disparage President Trump as many will to go past the title assuming and wrongly it was PDJ Trump
Maybe if a Muslim with ChiCom Bat Flu molests a goat, it could test positive. There weren’t any Mohammedans around the goat recently, where there? Only in that part of the world...
Is a test kit that is designed to show false positives really a tool to cause panic? I would have the origin of the test kits investigated and see if they were even designed to work in the first place.
“Look for the bare necessities
The simple bare necessities
Forget about your worries and your strife
I mean the bare necessities
That’s why a bear can rest at ease
With just the bare necessities of life
Now when you pick a pawpaw
Or a prickly pear
And you prick a raw paw
Well next time beware
Don’t pick the prickly pear by the paw
When you pick a pear
Try to use the claw
But you don’t need to use the claw
When you pick a pear of the big pawpaw
Have I given you a clue?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJizAYb7OAk
Say what you will about today’s Disney Corp... Disney produced great animated movies!
Yes, it was.
I agree. That’s the old Disney. Phil Harris is great.
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