President Museveni has revealed that some of Uganda’s Covid-19 samples were erroneously confirmed positive. The President said the error was due to the ‘carelessness’ of the Makerere testing laboratory.
The President made this revelation on June, 11 at Nakasero State House while delivering his 2020/2021 FY Budget speech.
“Some of the 679 confirmed cases were classified as positive when they are not by a laboratory in Makerere because they were careless. A few people were working there and probably got tired,” Museveni said.
The President also said that Ministry would clarify on the issue of erroneously tested samples later.
On the same event, President Museveni also urged Ugandans to police themselves if the country is to win the fight against the spread of the Coronavirus.
The President said that the government will not continue pleading with Ugandans ‘to live’ because the health experts and his government have done their part of sensitizing the public about preventative measures against the spread of the Coronavirus disease.
“We cannot go on begging people to live. That we call the police to enforce the measures. All of us should enforce this on ourselves without having to bother the police,” Museveni said.
According to the Ministry of Health, Uganda has 679 confirmed cases of Covid-19 with no deaths attached to the Coronavirus yet.
