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Is Palm Oil Being Used to Treat COVID-19 Patients?
A social media post claims that palm oil is used to treat COVID-19 patients.
The post comes with a photo of Ghana's Health Minister, Kwaku...
Fake: WHO is Not Recruiting SMS Senders
A job vacancy announcement reportedly from the World Health Organization (WHO) on COVID-19 has been circulating on WhatsApp platforms. The message, which is being...
Basic Precautions to Take When Attending Social Gatherings
The world seems to have had a little grip on the novel coronavirus even though health experts and the World Health Organization (WHO) are...
Misleading: Government’s Stimulus Package for Businesses NOT from IMF Loan
A Facebook post shared on a National Democratic Congress (NDC) page, NDC Eye, has made a claim that even though the government of Ghana...
Viral Photo of COVID-19 Isolation Center NOT from Ghana
Some Twitter posts that show two men sitting and eating on the floor in a hospital setting is making rounds on social media. The...
Are You Likely to be Re-infected After Recovering from COVID-19?
Am I likely to be infected again after recovering from COVID-19? This is one of the questions many people have been asking since the...
WHO has NOT Confirmed COVID-19 to be Airborne
Messages circulating on some WhatsApp platforms indicate that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has confirmed that COVID-19 can be transmitted through the air. The...
False: Electricity Bills Have NOT Gone Up by 17.5 Percent
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in an address during the 11th day of the partial lockdown on April 9, 2020, announced that the government...
NDC’s Claims on Jamestown Fishing Harbor project, University of Ghana Medical Center Completely false
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in its 2016 manifesto stated that it would construct ‘new harbours at Jamestown in Accra and in Keta’...
Minority in Parliament Quotes WRONG July 2 COVID-19 Figures in Statement
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Members of Parliament, in a statement issued on Thursday July 2, 2020, stated some figures to give an overview...
False! Local Government Service is NOT Recruiting
A ten-page document titled Local Government Recruitment has been making rounds on social media. This document purports to advertise vacant positions in the service...
Book and Research Allowance: NPP and Bawumia’s Claim False
On July 6, 2020, the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) held a press conference a few hours after the opposition National Democratic Conference (NDC)...
