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Tanzania suspends laboratory head after president questions coronavirus tests
reuters.com ^ | May 4, 2020 | George Obulutsa

Posted on 05/05/2020 1:00:44 PM PDT by ransomnote

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - 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.

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KEYWORDS: africa; coronavirus; covid19; johnmagufuli; tanzania
The president of Tanzania shoots! HE SCORES! He allowed the tests to be imported, had security officials "test" frut and animals but assigned them names/ages of people and VOILA! YOU'VE GOT COVID!!!
1 posted on 05/05/2020 1:00:44 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

Imported from.Red.China I bet.


2 posted on 05/05/2020 1:02:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: ransomnote

Odd title

I expected a photo


3 posted on 05/05/2020 1:04:54 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: ransomnote

“...test kits were faulty as they had returned positive results on a goat and a pawpaw ...”

Liz Warren’s dad?


4 posted on 05/05/2020 1:05:57 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: ransomnote

Man, I’ve been worried about Tanzania’s take on all this.
I scarcely make a move without checking on Tanzania’s stance.


5 posted on 05/05/2020 1:08:16 PM PDT by humblegunner
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Still we need to know where those tests came from because those are false positives....if they got those tests from the same sources that some places in the US may have gotten them from then there is huge trouble ahead and a lot of folks who may have been falsely deemed as sick!


6 posted on 05/05/2020 1:09:10 PM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: ransomnote
kits were faulty as they had returned positive results on a goat and a pawpaw

I wonder if they tested a popsicle. If it tested positive, we could call it a Wu-Pop,

7 posted on 05/05/2020 1:09:21 PM PDT by Migraine
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He did not say where the kits had been imported from

Do you even need to ask?

8 posted on 05/05/2020 1:10:06 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ransomnote

Goats got COVID!


9 posted on 05/05/2020 1:15:21 PM PDT by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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To: ransomnote
He did not say where the kits had been imported from

I would hazard a guess at where the kits were imported from.

10 posted on 05/05/2020 1:22:24 PM PDT by Moorings
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