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Fact-Checking The Claim That Chinese Medical Aid Received in Ghana Has Been Contaminated With COVID-19

by Eric Olander

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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