Going back now to the Director of Health Services. He appeared this afternoon on Ask The Experts. We asked him about expired swabs that the Ministry of Health was using to test for COVID 19 back in late March and early April when supplies were low. Sources tell us the swabs had expired in November of 2019. He didn't deny it today:
Dr. Marvin Manzanero, Director Of Health Service
"We have received a report that in late March/April that MOE is using expired swabs from government 2019, can you comment?"
"Yes, that has been done across the region, not only in Belize. We did consult with region public health agents and there is a little indicator that changes color once those swabs can no longer be use and we did do what's called a parallel study with non-expired swabs and they worked. I think we also said that we were using pediatric swabs couple of weeks ago and those were also work. The expired date means that assuming that you are not meeting the ideal conditions that you will no longer be able to use and those that change color they were not use at all."
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