Tanzania is set to be the next African country to order Covid Organics from Madagascar as the fight against Coronavirus intensifies. Some African countries have already made moves in purchasing the plant oriented treatment from Madagascar who made this product available a month ago.
However, most countries have been lukewarm about the whole situation, not knowing whether to follow the World Health Organization’s instructions against self medication or whether to rely on the Covid Organics.
Tanzania reports that paw paw and a goat had tested positive for COVID-19 and the President John Magufuli has questioned the imported testing kits. Speaking on TV, President Magufuli said he was already in contact with the government of Madagascar and would dIspatch an aircraft to the island nation to collect the medicine.
I am communicating with Madagascar, and they have already written a letter saying they have discovered some medicine. We will despatch a flight to bring the medicine so that Tanzanians can also benefit. So as the government we are working day and night,” he said.
President Magufuli has already been widely criticized for his reaction to the coronavirus pandemic.He has encouraged the public to continue gathering in places of worship, while much of the world has faced lock down. Tanzania’s delay in enforcing stricter measures to prevent further spread of coronavirus in the country could have led to the spike in positive cases, according to the WHO.
The country has 480 confirmed cases of coronavirus but President Magufuli said that number may be exaggerated and that he doubted the credibility of the national laboratory. He said that he had secretly had some animals and fruits tested at the laboratory and that a papaya (paw-paw), a quail and a goat returned positive samples.
That means there is possibility for technical errors or these imported reagents have issues,” he said, without giving more detail.
