Fake news and other rumors started to circulate widely on Ghanaian social media this month claiming that imported personal protective equipment from China was infected with COVID-19:
“As long as they [Ghanaian authorities] allowed materials from china which contains COVID-19 the number of the deadly virus will keep rising,” said one Facebook post that obviously did not contain any supporting evidence.
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