HORROR AS GOAT, TESTS POSITIVE FOR COVID-19
There is something happening. I said before we should not accept that every ([foreign] aid is meant to be good for this nation.
Just when thing you have
seen and heard it all, boom! you receive the news that makes your ear tingle.
A goat testing positive
for Coivd-19? Yes, and that has got the president of Tanzanian, John Magufuli, really
worried.
According to According to Aljazeera, Magufuli’s worries stem from the fact that the testing kits imported into the country have
resulted in both goat and pawpaw “testing positive” for COVID-19, after samples
of the testing kits were conducted on them.
Magufuli, who spoke on
Sunday at an event in Chato, northwestern part of the country, said he had
ordered investigation into the quality of the testing kits. It was gathered
that they had randomly obtained several non-human samples, including from a
pawpaw, a goat and a sheep.
The animals were
consequently assigned human names and ages before they were being forwarded to
the country’s laboratory to be tested for the virus with the lab technicians
left deliberately unaware of their origins.
According to the
president, results from the laboratory had shown the pawpaw and goat tested
positive for the virus. Magufuli, however, said there’s possibility of
“technical errors” with the test.
He said the development
was a pointer to the possibility of people being declared to have tested
positive to the virus when they are actually not infected with the virus.
“There is something
happening. I said before we should not accept that every aid is meant to be
good for this nation,” he said.
The development came about
the same time when the president had reportedly ordered for “Covid Organics”, a
herbal medicine touted as potential cure for the novel disease — though without
scientific evidence — from 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 country has so far
confirmed 480 cases of the killer virus with 16 deaths, according to worldometers.info.
Post a Comment