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Akufo-Addo falsely claims Ghana leads Covid-19 testing in Africa

The French News Agency (AFP) has described as false President Akufo-Addo’s claim that Ghana “has administered more tests per million people than any other country in Africa.”

According to AFP, it has found from available statistics that Ghana is behind South Africa and at least two other African countries.

The President, Nana Akufo-Addo in his ninth address to the nation on measures his government was taking to fight the coronavirus said "Our country has administered more tests per million people than any other country in Africa, and, in fact, the World Health Organization… has reached out to us to share our sample-pooling experience with other African countries, so they can adopt this strategy and also ramp up their testing capabilities,"


May 13, 2020


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