{"id":8071,"date":"2020-05-03T21:43:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T21:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/tanzania\/?p=8071"},"modified":"2020-05-03T21:43:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T21:43:10","slug":"covid-19-updatepawpaw-goat-quail-samples-test-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/covid-19-updatepawpaw-goat-quail-samples-test-positive","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 UPDATE:PAWPAW, GOAT, QUAIL SAMPLES TEST POSITIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"

AfricaPress-Tanzania:<\/strong> In a shocking revelation, President John Magufuli on Sunday said samples of a pawpaw, goat and quail tested positive for coronavirus at National Referral Laboratory.<\/p>\n

Non-human samples were submitted for Covid-19 testing at the facility in a deliberate move by State agencies sought to establish the efficiency of the coronavirus testing kits and the accuracy of the results issued by the laboratory.<\/p>\n

Shockingly, some of the tests came out positive, others inconclusive and undetermined, revealed the President at a brief swearing-in ceremony of new Minister for Constitution and Legal Affairs, Dr Mwigulu Nchemba.<\/p>\n

He eventually directed the newly-sworn in minister to launch the investigation on the matter and establish where the problem stems from.<\/p>\n

It was yet another Anti-Covid 19 masterpiece by the Head of State, who addressed the nation from Chato district, Geita region.<\/p>\n

According to President Magufuli, the government took measures to test the efficiency of the facility in testing the Coronavirus and used different samples such as car oil, animals, birds and fruits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AfricaPress-Tanzania: In a shocking revelation, President John Magufuli on Sunday said samples of a pawpaw, goat and quail tested positive for coronavirus at National Referral Laboratory. Non-human samples were submitted for Covid-19 testing at the facility in a deliberate move by State agencies sought to establish the efficiency of the coronavirus testing kits and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":8065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,2565,8],"tags":[2322,24,3637],"class_list":["post-8071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-coronavirus-in-tanzania","category-homepage-english","tag-covid-19","tag-john-magufuli","tag-national-referral-laboratory"],"yoast_head":"\nCOVID-19 UPDATE:PAWPAW, GOAT, QUAIL SAMPLES TEST POSITIVE - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a shocking revelation, President John Magufuli on Sunday said samples of a pawpaw, goat and quail tested positive for coronavirus at National Referral\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/covid-19-updatepawpaw-goat-quail-samples-test-positive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COVID-19 UPDATE:PAWPAW, GOAT, QUAIL SAMPLES TEST POSITIVE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In a shocking revelation, President John Magufuli on Sunday said samples of a pawpaw, goat and quail tested positive for coronavirus at National Referral\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/covid-19-updatepawpaw-goat-quail-samples-test-positive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tanzania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-05-03T21:43:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/05\/d05d7474e8d1295caa889a61f91a5264.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/covid-19-updatepawpaw-goat-quail-samples-test-positive#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/covid-19-updatepawpaw-goat-quail-samples-test-positive\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"COVID-19 UPDATE:PAWPAW, GOAT, QUAIL SAMPLES TEST POSITIVE\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-03T21:43:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/covid-19-updatepawpaw-goat-quail-samples-test-positive\"},\"wordCount\":174,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/covid-19-updatepawpaw-goat-quail-samples-test-positive#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/05\/d05d7474e8d1295caa889a61f91a5264.jpeg\",\"keywords\":[\"COVID-19\",\"John Magufuli\",\"National Referral Laboratory\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"Coronavirus in Tanzania\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/covid-19-updatepawpaw-goat-quail-samples-test-positive#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/covid-19-updatepawpaw-goat-quail-samples-test-positive\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/covid-19-updatepawpaw-goat-quail-samples-test-positive\",\"name\":\"COVID-19 UPDATE:PAWPAW, GOAT, QUAIL SAMPLES TEST POSITIVE - 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