the swab was a false positive- Corriere.it

Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese negative for coronavirus. Better: I have never tested positive for the virus. According to a statement from the Interior Ministry, the positivity found in the December 7 buffer is the result of an error.

The general management of the Sant’Andrea hospital in Rome explained that the false positivity can be attributed to a rare but possible error event in the processing of the sample. Two molecular tests to search for the Sars-CoV-2 virus, carried out on December 9 and 10, were negative.

The note from the Ministry of the Interior explains that the minister will resume her institutional activity tomorrow, and attributes to the fact that some media have spread the news of the positive in real time the fact that it was not possible, immediately, to carry out the necessary and necessary . Adequate checks on the reliability of the examination result.

After the positivity – now revealed incorrectly – of the swab made by Lamorgese, the Council of Ministers that was in operation on December 7 had been interrupted, and two ministers had been placed, that of Foreign Affairs Luigi Di Maio and that of Judge Alfonso Bonafede . in fiduciary isolation.

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