Govt mistakenly declared Block 8 nurse negative

In a response letter following a demand from the nurse, Morobi Dinao about why his results transcript was smudged before a ‘positive’ result was written, why there was no accompanying signature and the delay to see his results, the Senior Consultant Virologist at National Health Laboratory, Madisa Mine said the results were originally registered as SARS COVID-2 Negative as a transcription error.

“The laboratory resulting system at that stage was still manual entry, Dinao Morobi covid 19/2020/1425 was originally resulted as SARS COV-2 Negative, this was a transcription error as results SARS COV-2 Positive. Therefore, the reason for the smudge of the original request form was to rectify the transcription error,” he said.