A Goat and Pawpaw test positive for COVID-19

On May 3, 2020 President John Magufuli of Tanzania said in order to evaluate the quality of imported PCR test kits, the Tanzanian security forces randomly obtained non-human samples, including from a pawpaw, a goat and a sheep and assigned human names. The labs reported the pawpaw and goat as testing positive for COVID-19.  The faulty kits meant some people were testing positive for COVID-19 without actually being infected.  [1, 2]

In late January 2021 President Magufuli rejected the  COVID-19 vaccines, then by mid March dies of “heart condition” thought to be “mysterious”. [3]