Tanzania President John Magufuli has suspended Director of Tanzania’s National Health Laboratory manager.
The comes off after the president questioned the credibility of coronavirus testing kits being used by the lab.
Investigation has since commence to look into the issue.
This was during a live broadcast yesterday.
The president also said, he revealed that he secretly commissioned testing of randomly collected non-human samples, which were assigned names and ages.
“Vehicle oil for instance, labelled Jabir Hamza aged 30-years-old [male], tested negative.
We sent a jackfruit sample which we named Sara Samweli, a 45-year-old female – the results were inconclusive.
When we sent a papaya [paw-paw] sample and named it Elizabeth Anne, aged 26 years, that papaya was positive,”
