This Pawpaw is virus free. It’s going to cost you though.
Posted on 05/08/2020 5:11:20 AM PDT by blam
The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) revealed on Thursday that faulty coronavirus test kits imported to Tanzania – which produced positive samples for a goat and a pawpaw, a papaya-like fruit – came from China, Reuters reported. Prior to the revelation, the origin of the imported test kits was unknown.
On Sunday, Tanzania’s President John Magufuli ordered an investigation into imported coronavirus test kits after announcing that the tests returned positive results for samples taken from a goat and a pawpaw. At the time, the president did not say where the test kits had been imported.
On Thursday, John Nkengasong, head of the Africa CDC, responded to the investigation. Nkengasong said that the test kits in question were imported to Africa from China, and then sent to Tanzania by the Africa CDC. China donated the test kits to Africa through the Jack Ma Foundation, a charitable organization founded by Chinese billionaire and Communist Party member Jack Ma. Ma founded the Chinese multinational technology company Alibaba Group.
In a speech broadcast on Tanzanian-state TV on Sunday and reported on by Reuters, Magufuli explained how the imported tests came to produce positive results for an animal and a fruit.
The president said he requested the goat and pawpaw samples – along with several other non-human samples – be submitted for testing at a Tanzanian laboratory, in an attempt to verify the testing kits’ accuracy. The non-human samples were assigned human names and ages and lab technicians were left intentionally unaware of their true origins.
On Sunday, the president called for an investigation of the imported testing kits and the Tanzanian laboratory in which the kits were used. He said he suspected a “dirty game” had taken place in the laboratory, according to a report by Al Jazeera...
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"The result for your Covid-19 test are in Mr Jones. Looks like you're positive for the virus, you recently ate some papaya, or had a double-decker goat-burger for lunch.
Africa CDC? I guess they don’t go full acronym and call it ACDC? Though I must say these test kits seem like dirty deeds done dirt cheap.
I would certainly hope no Freeper is surprised by the source of the defective tests.
The CDC sent out a bunch of tests that didn’t work as well.
Seems there is a market for tests that actually work...most of the time.
Good point, actually. At least the (American) CDC seems to have gotten its act together.
Being in Africa points to China. Being defective this late in the game also points to Beijing.
——Africa CDC?-—
When polled, 83% of black Baltimoreans could not name the President of Africa
Bet they know who the President of Wakanda is.
Or, they're not defective, just pre-contaminated with CV?
Fauci will soon be telling us not to eat because this can now jump to fruit and livestock. /s
This Pawpaw is virus free. It’s going to cost you though.
Probably faulty by design.
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