Lamorgese has never tested positive for Covid: “Wrong test”

Published on: 11/12/2020 2:11 PM

The Interior Minister, Luciana Lamorgese, “has never been positive for the coronavirus.” “The molecular test for SARS-CoV-2 carried out last Monday, related to a normal periodic control,” reports the Interior Ministry, “reported as positive, turned out to be incorrect.” “The fact that some media have spread the news of the minister’s positive test in real time did not allow, immediately, to carry out the necessary and adequate verifications on the reliability of the test result. The head of the Ministry of the Interior – reads in Una note- he repeated the molecular test for SARS-CoV-2 on Wednesday 9 and Thursday 10. Both tests were negative. The minister will resume his institutional activity tomorrow. ”The general management of the Sant’Andrea hospital in Rome confirmed today the false positive The minister “is negative for Covid. The positivity found in the December 7 swab is due to a rare but possible error event in the processing of the sample. “This was reported by the general direction of the Sant’Andrea hospital in Rome.” The two subsequent molecular tests for SARS -CoV-2, carried out – it is explained – on December 9 and 10, were negative. The dissemination of the news through the media of the positivity found is prior to these subsequent controls “.