Mozambique: False negative Covid-19 test results on sale at border with South Africa – Lusa

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Mozambique: False negative Covid-19 test results on sale at border with South Africa – Lusa

3:08 CAT | 06 Oct 2020

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False negative Covid-19 tests are being sold near the Mozambican border post of Ressano Garcia to anyone who wants to enter South Africa, the authorities denounced on Tuesday.

“We will work on ways of identification” and authentication to “make the test results” more reliable, the provincial health director of Maputo explained to Radio Mozambique, Daniel Chemane.

The aim “is to have an even more controllable or verifiable document,” he stressed.

The border post of Ressano Garcia, the busiest in Mozambique and with links to South Africa, reopened on Thursday to the public after six months (since 27 March) restricted to goods only due to restrictions imposed by Covid-19.

The reopening followed the easing of restrictions in South Africa, but the entry of people into the two countries is subject to compliance with the ” protocol of protection against Covid-19,” Mozambique’s Migration Service (Senami) spokesman Celestino Matsinhe told Lusa.

The protocol implies the presentation of a test made in the last 72 hours.

Mozambique has 56 border posts, but only 32 are currently operating due to limitations imposed by the new coronavirus.

Source: Lusa