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Melinda Gates said she feared coronavirus in Africa would lead to dead being put out in street, as in Ecuador
08:05 | 20th April 2020 (GMT)
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Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and wife of US billionaire Bill Gates, has said the coronavirus pandemic “will make Africa have dead bodies lying on the streets”.
That’s the claim in a 12 April 2020 post on Facebook in Kenya.
“Melinda Gates, renowned billionaire Gates wife says the lack of testing kits in Africa is the reason why the continent’s Novel Coronavirus cases are low, and this will make Africa have dead bodies lying on the streets,” the post says.
“Covid-19 will be horrible in the developing world, she said. My heart is in Africa. I am worried. The only reason why the reported cases of the coronavirus disease in Africa is low now is most likely because there have not been wide testing of people. The disease is going to bite hard on the continent. I see dead bodies in the streets of Africa, Melinda said.”
Variations on the claim have been posted elsewhere on Facebook. All have been flagged as possibly false by the social network’s fact-checking system.
It’s going to be horrible in the developing world. And part of the reason you’re seeing that case numbers don’t look very bad is because they don’t have access to very many tests,”she said.
“So, look at Ecuador. Look at what’s going on in Ecuador. They’re putting bodies out on the street. You’re going to see that in countries in Africa.”
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Kwa wasiojua lugha hii ni kwamba mke wa Bill Gate alitabiri Afrika kuanza kuokota maiti mitaani kama haitachukua hatua madhubuti dhidi ya corona