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THREAD: AFP’s best fact checks from last week. #CoronaVirusFacts

Woman who tested positive for #COVID19 is detained after spitting in Australian supermarket? 🇦🇺

No, this video shows two separate incidents involving different women in supermarkets.
u.afp.com/SupermarketVid…
No, US President @realDonaldTrump did not announce a coronavirus vaccine was 'ready' 🇺🇸
u.afp.com/TrumpVaccine
As the world fights to curb #coronavirus, Africa faces a unique challenge: tackling #misinformation fuelled by a deep distrust of government. AFP fact checkers around the continent explain. 🌍
u.afp.com/africadistrust
Video shows US soldier wiping saliva on a train in Wuhan? 🚆

FALSE: This video has circulated in media reports about a man on a subway train in Brussels
u.afp.com/SubwayTrain
Viral video misidentifies COVID-19 patient as Sophie Trudeau, the wife of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 🇨🇦
u.afp.com/SophieTrudeauv…
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🌍 THREAD: As the world fights to curb #coronavirus, Africa faces a unique challenge: tackling #misinformation fuelled by a deep distrust of government. Our fact checkers around the continent explain (1/5) 🕵️ u.afp.com/3Tz5
Conspiracy theorists in #Nigeria said the government made up COVID-19 cases there to cash in on international funds 💰 while viral online posts recommend eating onion to ward off the disease (2/5)
False rumours in #DRC include claims #coronavirus was created by the state to control the population 👩‍⚕️ Suspicions are fanned by misinformation, leading to attacks against health workers (3/5)
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🇳🇬 THREAD: A voice message circulating on WhatsApp in Nigeria claims that anti-malaria drug chloroquine can cure #coronavirus #coronavirusfacts (1/5) factcheck.afp.com/chloroquine-ha…
That's misleading 🤔 A Chinese study found the drug was promising, but trials are still underway. The @WHO says scientists are still working on a possible vaccine (2/5)
@WHO The voice message recommends taking 500 mg of chloroquine for eight days - a significantly higher amount than recommended doses (3/5)
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🇨🇦 Ahead of tonight’s debate in Canada, a look at viral misinformation we’ve seen:

False information about assistance to refugees is regularly shared on social media.

No single refugee receives $3,874 each month from the government u.afp.com/2016Invoice
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It’s also important to note that refugees do not get more financial help from the federal government than Canadian pensioners u.afp.com/oRyG
#elxn43 #cdnpoli
Speaking of pensions, Canada has a board, independent of the government, which manages retirement savings.

Claims that PM Justin Trudeau “took” $2 billion from Canada’s retirement fund and gave it to housing projects in India are false u.afp.com/CPPIB
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1/ This is a remarkable turn from Neil Ferguson, who led the @imperialcollege authors who warned of 500,000 UK deaths - and who has now himself tested positive for #COVID; newscientist.com/article/223857…
2/ He now says both that the U.K. should have enough ICU beds and that the coronavirus will probably kill under 20,000 people in the U.K. - more than 1/2 of whom would have died by the end of the year in any case bc they were so old and sick.
3/ Essentially, what has happened is that estimates of the viruses transmissibility have increased - which implies that many more people have already gotten it than we realize - which in turn implies it is less dangerous.
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Eight people, including a mohalla clinic doctor, have been so far tested positive for COVID-19 after they were found to be in contact with a 38-year-old woman from Dilshad Garden, who was tested positive on March 18.
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On March 20, her mother (65) and brother (35), both resident of Jahangirpuri were tested positive. The next day, her two daughters, living with her in the same house, were tested positive. Total positive cases in Delhi had reached to 27 till then
On Sunday, a 49-year-old mohalla clinic doctor was tested positive for the disease. He came in contact of the woman at his private clinic where she came for the diagnosis. The doctor went into self-isoation. But he had been to the mohalla clinic for almost six days
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Thread on what's happening inside the South Dakota women's prison after an inmate tested positive for COVID-19. My story is based on interviews with two inmates and five mothers:

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Multiple sources say the inmate who tested positive recently cleaned the empty Capitol building and is now isolated in a solitary confinement cell ... making others afraid to report symptoms since they don't want to go to solitary

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Women who feel sick are scared to tell staff because they're "afraid of being thrown in the hole," an inmate said.

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80 federal, state and local law enforcement officials in #Virginia arrested drug traffickers. They are SHUTTING DOWN the cartels/traffickers which is all part of the circle of elite/globalist take-down.
We know that Fauci lied in Congress about Encephalitis in #vaccines and we know about the email in 2013 about #HRC. In this video, it is suggested that maybe #Fauci has "flipped". A lot of politicians are flipping, giving up and talking. It's possible.
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On Covid-19 Cases in India

#coronavirusindia #COVID2019 #covidindia
Case 1,2,3 -

Kerala, 3 Students who returned from China in early februray.

All 3 have recovered.
Case 4,

(Mar 2)
Hyderabad, techie working for a bengaluru firm who returned from Dubai

Case 5,

(Mar 2)
Delhi, Person who returned from Italy
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...to San Francisco. apnews.com/cc77e92054c495…
2. Roads in and out of #Wuhan (even small side roads) being barricaded with piles of dirt/rocks to block all traffic in or out.
3. "Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times. Ye shall not .. print any marks upon you: I am the LORD. Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom"..."apnews.com/d59f43a911996a…
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