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Are swabs that are being used to test if you have Covid-19 contaminated?

A South African man was arrested after claiming, in a video, that swabs were being used globally to spread the new coronavirus. He told South Africans to resist getting tested.

There is no evidence that test kits in South Africa have been contaminated.

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