Coronavirus tracked: Hundreds of deaths caused by conspiracy theories and other misinformation, study finds
4 years, 6 months ago

Coronavirus tracked: Hundreds of deaths caused by conspiracy theories and other misinformation, study finds

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Online conspiracy theories and misinformation relating to Covid-19 may have resulted in at least 800 deaths from coronavirus, new research has revealed. Investigations by The Independent found that many of these rumours and conspiracy theories continue to circulate online, despite the crackdown by social media firms. "Misinformation fuelled by rumours, stigma, and conspiracy theories can have potentially severe implications on public health if prioritised over scientific guidelines," the study concludes. "The national and international agencies, including the fact-checking agencies, should not only identify rumours and conspiracies theories and debunk them but should also engage social media companies to spread correct information."

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Virus disinformation drives anti-China sentiment, lockdown fears
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Virus disinformation drives anti-China sentiment, lockdown fears

New Indian Express  

A deluge of disinformation about a flu-like virus called HMPV is stoking anti-China sentiment across Asia and spurring unfounded concerns of renewed lockdowns, despite experts dismissing comparisons with the Covid-19 pandemic five years ago. The falsehoods and fearmongering, which researchers warn could jeopardise the public response to a future pandemic, surged even as the World Health Organization said China's HMPV …

Column: A CIA ‘assessment’ revives the fact-free claim that COVID started in a Chinese lab
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Column: A CIA ‘assessment’ revives the fact-free claim that COVID started in a Chinese lab

LA Times  

John Ratcliffe, the newly confirmed director of the CIA, has long been a proponent of the lab-leak theory of COVID’s origins despite the lack of evidence for it. Benjamin Franklin was wrong, or at least premature, when he wrote in 1789 that nothing is certain in this world “except death and taxes.” Were he writing today, he would have to …

CIA Shifts View on Covid-19 Cause to Lab Leak ‘More Likely’
2 months ago

CIA Shifts View on Covid-19 Cause to Lab Leak ‘More Likely’

Live Mint  

-- The Central Intelligence Agency said the Covid-19 pandemic “more likely” originated from a lab leak than a natural source, shifting its stance after previously saying both scenarios were possible. “CIA assesses with low confidence that a research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely than a natural origin based on the available body of reporting,” a spokesperson for …

Government’s ‘fatal strategic flaws’ in Covid planning led to avoidable deaths and economic pain
8 months, 1 week ago

Government’s ‘fatal strategic flaws’ in Covid planning led to avoidable deaths and economic pain

The Independent  

Mass deaths and economic pain during the Covid-19 pandemic were driven by “fatal flaws” in planning by the government, civil servants and scientists who prepared for the “wrong pandemic”, a public inquiry has found. The UK Covid-19 Inquiry, chaired by Heather Hallett, published its first report on Thursday, focusing on the UK’s pandemic “preparedness and resilience”. The 217-page report said …

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
1 year, 2 months ago

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week

Associated Press  

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. In the days leading up to Wednesday’s panel on the topic, social media users began sharing a range of posts misrepresenting Disease X as real, and portraying it as an imminent threat to society. THE FACTS: News that migrants living in a temporary …

Burying the fallacy of vaccine sceptics
1 year, 4 months ago

Burying the fallacy of vaccine sceptics

Hindustan Times  

An Indian Council of Medical Research study has found that the spate of sudden deaths reported post-Covid among young adults in India could be because of past Covid hospitalisation, family history of sudden deaths, binge drinking, and intense unaccustomed activity. It should set at rest the harmful narrative based on anecdotes and rumours that Covid-19 vaccines caused these deaths. Covid-19 …

Covid-19 Inquiry: People encouraged to share pandemic experiences
1 year, 9 months ago

Covid-19 Inquiry: People encouraged to share pandemic experiences

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy People across the UK have been urged to share their …

COVID-19 conspiracies soar after latest report on origins
2 years ago

COVID-19 conspiracies soar after latest report on origins

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — COVID-19’s origins remain hazy. On Tuesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray told Fox News that the FBI “has for quite some time now” assessed that the pandemic’s origins are “most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan.” But others in the U.S. intelligence community disagree, and there’s no consensus. Everything we skeptics said was true.” Overall mentions of COVID-19 …

COVID-19 conjecture soars after latest report on origins
2 years ago

COVID-19 conjecture soars after latest report on origins

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Within hours, online mentions of conspiracy theories involving …

UK scientists dismissed Covid lab leak theory despite knowing it may be true: Report
2 years, 4 months ago

UK scientists dismissed Covid lab leak theory despite knowing it may be true: Report

Op India  

According to reports, experts in the United Kingdom aided in shutting down covid lab leak theory back in 2020. The article “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2,” published in Nature Medicine in March 2020, stated that the pandemic was triggered by a natural breakout event, and was crucial in dampening debate about the virus’s origins. However, by the time the article …

COVID origin | WHO says it’s unclear but lab leak theory needs study
2 years, 9 months ago

COVID origin | WHO says it’s unclear but lab leak theory needs study

The Hindu  

Over two years after the coronavirus was first detected in China, and after at least 6.3 million deaths have been counted worldwide from the pandemic, the World Health Organisation is recommending in its strongest terms yet that a deeper probe is required into whether a lab accident may be to blame. Yet in a report released on Thursday, WHO's expert …

Conspiracy theories increased online during the COVID-19 pandemic, offering opportunities to far-right groups
2 years, 11 months ago

Conspiracy theories increased online during the COVID-19 pandemic, offering opportunities to far-right groups

ABC  

In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, a video started to circulate on social media. That is according to new research by Macquarie University researchers, funded by the New South Wales government, which found a "statistically significant" increase in the discussion of conspiracy theories on mainstream social media platforms before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. "The global health emergency …

One in 20 believe conspiracy theory that Covid released as part of depopulation plan is ‘definitely true’
3 years ago

One in 20 believe conspiracy theory that Covid released as part of depopulation plan is ‘definitely true’

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy One in 20 adults in …

‘Pandora’s box’ of conspiracy theories unleashed by Covid cannot be shut, experts warn
3 years, 1 month ago

‘Pandora’s box’ of conspiracy theories unleashed by Covid cannot be shut, experts warn

The Independent  

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Op-Ed: The anti-vax movement was already getting scary. COVID supercharged it
3 years, 1 month ago

Op-Ed: The anti-vax movement was already getting scary. COVID supercharged it

LA Times  

Conspiracy theorists’ disinformation has led to the deaths of thousands of Americans every week by discouraging COVID-19 vaccinations. One study found that people who believe “9/11 truther” theories are more likely than average to also believe COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an influential anti-vaxxer, said at a recent rally in Washington: “Bill Gates and his 65,000 satellites …

Covid misinformation is everywhere
3 years, 4 months ago

Covid misinformation is everywhere

CNN  

New York CNN Business — The information landscape about Covid-19 is bewildering, with factual and fictional claims competing for attention. “Most commonly,” the report’s authors wrote, “six in ten adults have heard that the government is exaggerating the number of Covid-19 deaths by counting deaths due to other factors as coronavirus deaths and either believe this to be true or …

How to fight COVID vaccine misinformation?
3 years, 5 months ago

How to fight COVID vaccine misinformation?

Al Jazeera  

Opposition to vaccination is as old as vaccination itself. Although vaccines save five lives every minute, and even though 85 percent of children worldwide are vaccinated against diphtheria, tetanus, and whooping cough, some people are resisting the life-saving shots. Although this opposition has not prevented many countries from reaching very high vaccine uptake – for example in Spain, nearly 80 …

‘This is genocide’: Inside the bizarre rise of coronavirus conspiracy theories
3 years, 7 months ago

‘This is genocide’: Inside the bizarre rise of coronavirus conspiracy theories

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Because they’re part of it too.” Welcome to the West Yorkshire leg of the …

Surgeon General Says COVID-19 Misinformation Is An ‘Insidious Threat’ To The U.S.
3 years, 8 months ago

Surgeon General Says COVID-19 Misinformation Is An ‘Insidious Threat’ To The U.S.

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued a stark warning to the nation on Thursday about the ongoing spread of COVID-19 misinformation. He also called out tech companies for failing to rein in anti-vaccination posts that pose an “imminent and insidious threat to our nation’s health.” “Modern technology companies have enabled misinformation to poison our information environment with little …

Biden: Social media ‘killing people’ with COVID misinformation
3 years, 8 months ago

Biden: Social media ‘killing people’ with COVID misinformation

Al Jazeera  

Misinformation about the virus and vaccines has spread on platforms including Facebook and Twitter. President Joe Biden has said that social media companies are “killing people” by failing to police misinformation on their platforms about COVID-19 vaccines. “Misinformation poses an imminent and insidious threat to our nation’s health,” Murthy said during remarks on Thursday at the White House. Lives are …

US steps up fight against COVID-19 misinformation
3 years, 8 months ago

US steps up fight against COVID-19 misinformation

Al Jazeera  

The effort comes as the pace of COVID-19 vaccinations has slowed throughout the US, due in part to false claims. US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on Thursday called for a national effort to fight misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines, urging tech companies, health care workers, journalists and everyday Americans to do more to address a problem “that cost us lives”. …

The picture is clear, it is top-down misinformation
3 years, 9 months ago

The picture is clear, it is top-down misinformation

The Hindu  

When asked what source of false or misleading information about the novel coronavirus they are most concerned about, many more Indians highlight domestic political actors than worry about activist groups, foreign governments, or journalists. ‘Network propaganda’ Study after study around the world has found such “ network propaganda ”, where misinformation is spread by some top politicians, nakedly partisan news …

In a pandemic, the power of the rumour
3 years, 10 months ago

In a pandemic, the power of the rumour

Hindustan Times  

On average, in 2019, Indian internet users spent close to 2.5 hours on social media everyday. Yet, health information, specifically on social media, is often published, shared, and re-shared, irrespective of its veracity, frequently leading to the spread of misinformation and rumours under the guise of truth. Covid-19 is the first pandemic in history where technology and social media are …

Understanding what drives conspiracy theories, in the context of COVID-19 in India and political beliefs
3 years, 10 months ago

Understanding what drives conspiracy theories, in the context of COVID-19 in India and political beliefs

Firstpost  

When believing in conspiracies also makes you believe that you are unlikely to get the virus, it is indeed dangerous. Conspiratorial thinking usually makes one believe that someone, usually a powerful “other”, is hiding something important about an otherwise unexplained situation, from them. In the context of the pandemic, we have seen how certain religious and/or occupational groups, particularly those …

Covid-19 is a shot in the arm for anti-vaccine movement
3 years, 11 months ago

Covid-19 is a shot in the arm for anti-vaccine movement

Live Mint  

Anti-vaccine campaigners once confined to relatively obscure groups have exploited the coronavirus pandemic to reach a wider audience online, feeding on public fears to sow doubt about the drugs now available. You can find them online among France's yellow vest campaigners, among libertarian groups and New Age proselytisers, according to First Draft, a campaign group that specialises in exposing misinformation. …

Covid-19 has shown us what conspiracy theories can do
3 years, 11 months ago

Covid-19 has shown us what conspiracy theories can do

Live Mint  

Daniel Roberts hadn’t had a vaccination since he was 6. I guess I chose to believe the facts.” As the world struggles to break the grip of COVID-19, psychologists and misinformation experts are studying why the pandemic spawned so many conspiracy theories, which have led people to eschew masks, social distancing and vaccines. “People need big explanations for big problems, …

Viral thoughts: Why COVID-19 conspiracy theories persist
3 years, 11 months ago

Viral thoughts: Why COVID-19 conspiracy theories persist

Associated Press  

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Daniel Roberts hadn’t had a vaccination since he was 6. I guess I chose to believe the facts.” As the world struggles to break the grip of COVID-19, psychologists and misinformation experts are studying why the pandemic spawned so many conspiracy theories, which have led people to eschew masks, social distancing and vaccines. “People need big explanations …

Few Facts, Millions Of Clicks: Fearmongering Vaccine Stories Go Viral Online
4 years ago

Few Facts, Millions Of Clicks: Fearmongering Vaccine Stories Go Viral Online

NPR  

Few Facts, Millions Of Clicks: Fearmongering Vaccine Stories Go Viral Online Enlarge this image toggle caption Sarah Reingewirtz/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images Sarah Reingewirtz/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images The odds of dying after getting a COVID-19 vaccine are virtually nonexistent. Enlarge this image toggle caption Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram via Getty Images Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group/Long …

Articles Linking COVID-19 Vaccines To Death Seem To Be Driving Misinformation Online
4 years ago

Articles Linking COVID-19 Vaccines To Death Seem To Be Driving Misinformation Online

NPR  

Articles Linking COVID-19 Vaccines To Death Seem To Be Driving Misinformation Online Ahead of congressional testimony from the heads of Facebook, Twitter and Google, a new NPR analysis finds that articles linking COVID-19 vaccines to death are driving misinformation online. New reporting from NPR out today shows that a specific type of story about vaccines has been spreading quickly online …

Facebook vowed to crack down on Covid-19 vaccine misinformation but misleading posts remain easy to find
4 years, 1 month ago

Facebook vowed to crack down on Covid-19 vaccine misinformation but misleading posts remain easy to find

CNN  

CNN Business — Nearly two months into the largest vaccine rollout in US history, Instagram continued to prominently feature anti-vaccination accounts in its search results, while Facebook groups railing against vaccines remained easy to find. Previously, Facebook’s policies banned misinformation about Covid-19 that “contributes to the risk of imminent violence or physical harm.” Public health experts have said they fear …

Misinformation on covid-19 and 5G spreads rapidly, just like the coronavirus
4 years, 2 months ago

Misinformation on covid-19 and 5G spreads rapidly, just like the coronavirus

Live Mint  

While 5G doesn’t cause covid-19, the rumours around it definitely spread as rapidly as the novel coronavirus, researchers have found out using the same epidemiological models that are employed to calculate the spread of infectious diseases. A team led by researchers from the Boston University School of Public Health, scientists from Harvard Medical School and École Polytechnique Fédérale examined the …

Coronavirus poses ‘very real’ risk to life, say public health officials after anti-vax leaflets distributed in London
4 years, 2 months ago

Coronavirus poses ‘very real’ risk to life, say public health officials after anti-vax leaflets distributed in London

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Public health officials have urged people to take up their …

2020 was the year that American science denial became lethal
4 years, 3 months ago

2020 was the year that American science denial became lethal

LA Times  

President Trump speaks to reporters as he arrives at an airport in Charlotte, N.C., on Nov. 1, 2020, for a rally. Was it when Republican senators and members of Congress bought into Trump’s assertion that the deadliness of COVID-19 had been exaggerated — people such as Sen. John Kennedy, whose own state’s death rate from the pandemic outpaced those of …

More than half of Americans say they know someone who has been hospitalized or died due to Covid-19, Pew survey finds
4 years, 3 months ago

More than half of Americans say they know someone who has been hospitalized or died due to Covid-19, Pew survey finds

CNN  

CNN — Slightly more than half of US adults – 54% – now say that they know someone who has been hospitalized or died due to Covid-19, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center. It’s a drastic uptick since late May, when a previous Pew survey found that just 20% of Americans knew someone who’d been hospitalized …

US ‘Covid warriors’ share heartbreaking stories from the frontlines of battling disease
4 years, 4 months ago

US ‘Covid warriors’ share heartbreaking stories from the frontlines of battling disease

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Telling two teenagers whose father died in our …

News orgs prove Trump’s outlandish claim wrong as they continue spotlighting coronavirus
4 years, 4 months ago

News orgs prove Trump’s outlandish claim wrong as they continue spotlighting coronavirus

CNN  

CNN Business — A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. Wednesday’s WaPo A1 features a map accompanied by a headline that warns, “Surge shows no sign of easing.” CNN’s homepage is featuring a story with a headline that reads, “Coronavirus hospitalizations in US reach an all-time high with more than 60,000.” And NYT’s homepage focuses …

Coronavirus: Met police spend £1 million on anti-mask protesters
4 years, 4 months ago

Coronavirus: Met police spend £1 million on anti-mask protesters

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Protests in London promoting anti-mask coronavirus conspiracy theories have cost …

Coronavirus conspiracy theories mean vaccine ‘might not be enough’ to end pandemic, scientists warn
4 years, 5 months ago

Coronavirus conspiracy theories mean vaccine ‘might not be enough’ to end pandemic, scientists warn

The Independent  

The development of a Covid-19 vaccine “might not be enough” to end the pandemic as the growing popularity of conspiracy theories deters people from taking the jabs, scientists have warned. The notorious 5G conspiracy theory — which alleges telecommunication towers are worsening Covid-19 symptoms or somehow spreading the virus — holds sway over smaller but still significant segments: 16 per …

Weak Math Skills Make People More Susceptible to Misinformation About Coronavirus
4 years, 5 months ago

Weak Math Skills Make People More Susceptible to Misinformation About Coronavirus

News 18  

People with weak arithmetic-solving ability are more susceptible to believing in misinformation regarding coronavirus, a survey conducted across five countries has revealed. The respondents were made to sit through three sets of tests to understand the kind of information they retain, which resulted in the researchers to come to the conclusion that the most common factor which made made people …

Coronavirus Infodemic: People Falling for Conspiracy Theories, Hoaxes More Reluctant to Vaccines
4 years, 5 months ago

Coronavirus Infodemic: People Falling for Conspiracy Theories, Hoaxes More Reluctant to Vaccines

News 18  

Up to a third of people in certain countries may believe coronavirus misinformation and in turn, be less open to immunisation, scientists said Wednesday, warning that development of a vaccine “might not be enough”. Researchers in Britain and the Netherlands conducted surveys in the UK, United States, Ireland, Mexico and Spain and found that while most people rejected Covid-19 conspiracy …

Up to ONE-THIRD of people believe unproven theories that the coronavirus was made in a Chinese lab
4 years, 5 months ago

Up to ONE-THIRD of people believe unproven theories that the coronavirus was made in a Chinese lab

Daily Mail  

Up to one-third of people believe the coronavirus was engineered in a laboratory in Wuhan, China - where the pandemic originated, a new study suggests. Researchers found that around 23 percent of people in the UK and the US believe the unproven conspiracy theory and labeled it as 'reliable' information. A new study found that between 22% and 23% in …

Donald Trump is biggest single source of coronavirus misinformation researchers say
4 years, 5 months ago

Donald Trump is biggest single source of coronavirus misinformation researchers say

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Donald Trump is the …

Why some Muslims embrace conspiracy theories about coronavirus
4 years, 5 months ago

Why some Muslims embrace conspiracy theories about coronavirus

ABC  

While much of the world awaits a coronavirus vaccine, there is a vocal minority that seeks to explain away coronavirus with conspiracy theories — and Muslims, unfortunately, are not exempt from their allure. Part of the attraction of conspiracy theories is the way they offer complete, if incredible, explanations for major events or complex problems — such as, “the Apollo …

How do we tackle an ‘infodemic’ amid a pandemic?
4 years, 6 months ago

How do we tackle an ‘infodemic’ amid a pandemic?

Al Jazeera  

From harmful health advice to rumours and conspiracy theories, disinformation is hampering the fight against COVID-19. Rumours, fake news and conspiracy theories have spread faster and more easily than the coronavirus, forcing health experts to combat not just the pandemic, but an “unprecedented” epidemic of misinformation. Following incidents of people using deceptively marketed “miracle cures” – such as drinking methanol …

More than 200,000 people have died of COVID-19 in the U.S.
4 years, 6 months ago

More than 200,000 people have died of COVID-19 in the U.S.

LA Times  

Nurses and healthcare workers light candles in an April demonstration at a New York hospital, mourning colleagues who have died of COVID-19. COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. surpassed 200,000 on Tuesday, as outbreaks of the disease flare in little-touched parts of the country and authorities brace for a rising caseload with the onset of autumn. The pandemic’s relentless progression has …

Semen smoothies to eating papad: How fake theories are weakening fight against Covid
4 years, 7 months ago

Semen smoothies to eating papad: How fake theories are weakening fight against Covid

India Today  

Don't wear a mask. Over the past few months, the world's fight against the coronavirus pandemic has been derailed by a flurry of conspiracy theories, hoaxes and misinformation. Follow coronavirus live updates From the time the virus emerged as a global threat, conspiracy theories and misinformation emerged online on various social media platforms. In the video, Immanuel suggested that facemasks …

Getting a coronavirus test? Don't believe the myths and conspiracy theories about how PCR test kits work
4 years, 8 months ago

Getting a coronavirus test? Don't believe the myths and conspiracy theories about how PCR test kits work

ABC  

Melbourne is in the midst of a testing blitz to control the latest coronavirus outbreak. "PCR tests are used in Victoria and are one of the most common ways to test for coronavirus," he said. Another version of the misinformation shared in Australian conspiracy-theory Facebook groups incorrectly claims PCR tests can "break the blood-brain barrier" and allow "bacteria & other …

Neo-Nazis telling followers to ‘deliberately infect’ Jews and Muslims with coronavirus, report warns
4 years, 8 months ago

Neo-Nazis telling followers to ‘deliberately infect’ Jews and Muslims with coronavirus, report warns

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Research by the Commission for Countering Extremism said groups of all kinds had been …

Thanks to conspiracy theories, Australians are refusing to test for COVID-19
4 years, 8 months ago

Thanks to conspiracy theories, Australians are refusing to test for COVID-19

Deccan Chronicle  

Melbourne: Coronavirus conspiracy theories are hampering frantic efforts to contain a steep spike in cases around the city of Melbourne, where more than 10,000 people have refused testing, Australian health authorities warned Friday. "Disappointingly however we have had more than 10,000 people who have refused to be tested," health minister Jenny Mikakos said. Officials were still analysing the reasons given …

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