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      No, This Sudanese Minister Didn't Wear A Mask To Meet A Chinese Diplomat

      The Sudanese minister didn't wear a mask for the meeting. The image is photoshopped.

      By - AFP |
      Published -  20 Feb 2020 6:41 PM IST
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      No, This Sudanese Minister Didnt Wear A Mask To Meet A Chinese Diplomat

      A photograph shared hundreds of times on social media purports to show a Sudanese minister wearing a surgical mask to protect himself from the novel coronavirus during a meeting with a Chinese diplomat. However, the image has been Photoshopped.

      The photograph has been shared in English, French and Arabic since it started circulating online in early February.

      "Africans don't want to take chances with the Chinese. This is reportedly a Sudanese minister hosting a Chinese delegation," reads the caption on a tweet shared more than 200 times since February 8.

      A screenshot of the photograph shared on Twitter, taken on February 17, 2020

      Also Read: Coronavirus Monitor: Number Of Cases Slow Down

      "This is how the Sudanese minister welcomed the Chinese Ambassador at his office yesterday morning," claimed Botswana Trending News, which has more than 50,000 followers on Facebook.

      AFP ran a reverse image search on Google, which revealed several articles in Arabic featuring the same photo but without the mask.

      An article from news site Alrakoba said on February 3 that Sudan's foreign minister and China's ambassador to Sudan had met to discuss plans to evacuate Sudanese citizens in China.

      A screenshot of an article from news site Alrakoba, taken on February 17, 2020

      Sudan's official SUNA news agency reported on February 3 that the country was planning to evacuate citizens from Wuhan, where the outbreak emerged late last year. A string of countries have already flown nationals home from the city, including the United States, Canada and Japan.

      The virus has killed more than 1,800 people in China as of February 18, sparking panic buying, economic jitters and the cancellation of high-profile sporting and cultural events

      AFP traced the photograph to the official Twitter account of Sudan's foreign office, where it was posted on February 3.

      "The minister of state at the ministry of foreign affairs received the ambassador of the People's Republic of China," the caption reads.

      The tweet links to an article on the ministry's website that confirms the men in the photograph are Sudan's state minister for the ministry of foreign affairs (whose name is Omar Qamar al-Din Ismail) and Ma Xinmin, China's ambassador to Sudan.

      Egypt's health ministry announced the first case of the novel coronavirus in Africa on February 14. They did not specify the patient's nationality, but said they were not Egyptian.

      (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by BOOM staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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      Claim :   This Sudanese minister wore a mask to meet with a Chinese delegation
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      Fact Check :  False
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