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COVID-19: Liberian government to screen lab technicians phones

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Health authorities in Liberia have reportedly invited the National Security Agency to screen the phones of laboratory technicians because of coronavirus test results leaking to the public.

Quoting technicians, a station reported that the action became necessary when news spread on social media that President George Weah had tested positive for the virus, information that the President’s office has since denied.

News about the President’s Covid-19 status spread after the ministers of Justice and Information tested positive for the virus. But the President’s chief of staff, Nathaniel McGill called into radio programs saying “the President is healthy”.

The Head of the National Public Institute, the institution leading the Covid-19 fight, Dr. Mosoka Fallah, declined to comment on the involvement of state security in screening the phones of laboratory technicians.

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